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Bad people thus eat the meat of exotic animals, especially those that are endangered. The concept is generally that they are so heartless, they would help a species go extinct or sink their teeth into something that's generally considered a rare beauty when they could just as easily get some chips. FridgeLogic issues as to how they'd know how to ''cook'' an exotic animal they'd never tried before, or that it wouldn't taste like crap, seldom come up.

* One episode of the ''WesternAnimation/AceVentura'' cartoon has a VillainousGlutton who is kidnapping endangered species as part of a planned seven-course meal.

* You can actually purchase a product called unicorn meat. It is actually a dismembered unicorn plush toy in a can.
** There's also an option for dragon meat.

* In ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', one of the Bebop Crew's target is dining on Ganymede Sea Rat - an endangered species, and expensive dish. Jet notes the sea rat ''tastes terrible'' and it's mostly eaten as a status symbol. Said man was quickly gunned down by [[AnimalWrongsGroup the Space Warriors]] for this.

* ''Wiki/{{Uncyclopedia}}'' gives us ''[[https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/UnBooks:A_Connoisseur%27s_Guide_to_Dishes_on_Endangered_Species A Connoisseur's Guide to Dishes on Endangered Species,]]'' featuring such delights as Baked Baby Panda Parmesan Pasta, Grilled Spotted Owl, Koala Stroganoff, Baby Beluga Chowder, and Hot Mexican Prairie Dog, amongst others.

Overlaps quite nicely with the EvilPoacher, and is often the meal of the CardCarryingVillain. AsiansEatPets often overlaps when Asians are depicted as evil for eating animals that are commonly household companions. For the clothing equivalent, see FurAndLoathing. If the exotic animals are consumed because they get people high and/or confer special powers to the eater, that's MonsterOrganTrafficking. Related to HauteCuisineIsWeird.

* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'' villain Jaeger makes money off recording himself hunting creatures and individuals who are the LastOfTheirKind and it's implied he sells their bodies afterwards to members of his twisted audience for consumption or whatever other uses they might want them for.

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* The Creator/{{Disney}} version of ''Film/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'' has the following:

''(Ned cautiously samples his "pudding" and seems to enjoy it)''\\

* Creator/DavidLynch's ''Film/Dune1984'' had an inexplicable throwaway scene of Rabban crushing a live mouse in a small device and then drinking the resulting mess with a straw. Yes, the man is generally referred to as "The Beast Rabban", but still.... ''subtle'', Lynch.
* In the original ''Film/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth'', it's not until the villain eats his beloved pet duck Gertrude that Hans musters enough outrage to fight the man.

* In the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode, "[[Recap/AngelS05E03Unleashed Unleashed]]", the villains are a club who like to dine on werewolves. Note that every werewolf is a human with a curse, and the curse dissipates (returning the werewolf to human form) when the werewolf dies. So they have to eat them ''alive''.
* ''Series/TheDefenders2017''. Murakami is introduced removing the organs from a moon bear (an endangered species) presumably for traditional medicine. To his credit, he was at least willing to risk his immortal life killing it.

-->-- '''[[BigBad Baron Sengir]]''', ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''

* In the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode, "[[Recap/AngelS05E03Unleashed Unleashed]]", the villains are a club who like to dine on werewolves. Note that every werewolf is a human with a curse, and the curse dissipates (returning the werewolf to human form) when the werewolf dies.

* In the ''{{Series/Supernatural}}'' season 9 episode "Dog Dean Afternoon", a chef has learned hoodoo and uses it to eat animal parts and take on their powers, [[spoiler: in an effort to stave off lung cancer]]. Of course, he gets eaten alive by dogs by the end of the episode.

* In ''Series/AlteredCarbon'' episode "In a Lonely Place", the super-wealthy Bancrofts are serving a whole tiger as an appetizer during a FancyDinner at their estate.

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': The BigBad of the two part "Year of Hell" serves a meal to his prisoners that is made up of dishes which were all taken from civilizations that he [[RetGone erased from history with his super weapon.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'', one line [[AnimalLover The Business]] may say when you capture the rarest, red-crested variant of a [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter virmink]] alive suggest what would've happened to that virmink had [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Nef Anyo]] got his hands on it first: being ground down into a nutrient paste. The thought of this gets him unusually angry.

* ''Manga/BladeOfTheImmortal'': Played straight with Rin's poor dog.
* ''Anime/WolfsRain'': It occurs when Jaguara dines on wolf meat seemingly for the sole purpose of torturing Cheza.

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* The film ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesInAnAdventureWithScientists'' has this as a recreational hobby [[spoiler: ''for all the world's leaders''. Queen Victoria somewhat uses this]] in an EvilerThanThou speech aimed at the Pirate Captain.
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* In the film ''Film/TheFreshman1990'' with Matthew Broderick and Marlon Brando, the evil, jaded rich people regularly dined on endangered animals as a thrill. [[spoiler: Or at least, they ''thought'' what they were eating were endangered animals; turns out that although the exotic creatures are displayed alive before the diners prior to each banquet, it's plain ol' chicken that actually gets cooked.]]

'''Captain Nemo:''' It's my own recipe: sauté of unborn octopus.

* In ''Film/FacesOfDeath IV'', a Vietnamese family is shown butchering(alive) and cooking a puppy.

* The Creator/NeilGaiman short story "Sunbird" follows a society of epicureans that pursues only the rarest meals. They don't seem to [[CruellaToAnimals delight in suffering]] but do take pride in the fact that they may be eating something right off the face of the earth. [[spoiler: Trying to sample [[ThePhoenix phoenix]] doesn't go as they expect...]]

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0744.html Official banquets]] in the [[TheEmpire Empire of Blood]] include dishes such as phoenix pâté (with liver taken from the still-living bird, since phoenixes burst into flames when dying) and pegasus flank. Even though the dinner is in his honor, Elan loses his appetite very fast. (note: these animals are sapient in the Dungeons & Dragons universe, and presumably likewise in OOTS)

* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' had this in the episode where the cast found the Rabbit Talisman, on an endangered [[Literature/TheTortoiseAndTheHare Tortoise]] that a villain was planning to dine upon.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays''

* Chef Gaston Gourmand from ''WesternAnimation/WildKratts'' has made preparing this kind of food his calling - in several episodes planning to cook for the other two Big Bads Zach Varmitech and Donita Donate.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation:'' [[http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-971 SCP-971]] is a takeout menu for a fast food service that sells hamburgers, chicken fingers, fries, etc. made from the meat of endangered animals. Somehow, the company has a method of non-lethally extracting meat from said endangered animals, not killing them but causing them to lose weight and muscle mass.

* The unnamed crazy gluttonous Patrician in ''Literature/TheColourOfMagic'' dined on candied jellyfish.

* ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'': It's not unheard of for the more extreme members of Ashwood Abbey to eat, drink the blood of, or [[MainliningTheMonster make drugs out of]] supernatural creatures.

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Overlaps quite nicely with the EvilPoacher, and is often the meal of the CardCarryingVillain. AsiansEatPets often overlaps when Asians are depicted as evil for eating animals that are commonly household companions. For the clothing equivalent, see FurAndLoathing. If the exotic animals are consumed because they get people high and/or confer special powers to the eater, that's MainliningTheMonster. Related to HauteCuisineIsWeird.

* ''The TabletopGame/{{Arduin}} Grimoire IV (The Lost Grimoire)'': Dirty Dorg's restaurant (a haven for evil creatures) has a menu featuring the meat of various monsters, including those of good-aligned creatures such as unicorn and hobbit.

* It's not unheard of for the more extreme members of Ashwood Abbey from ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'' to eat, drink the blood of, or [[MainliningTheMonster make drugs out of]] supernatural creatures.
* The ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' supplement ''Runner Havens'' has a restaurant in Seattle called the Peaceable Kingdom. The front of the house is a high-quality Chinese restaurant, but if you know the right people and have the money, the ''back'' of the house serves fine dishes made exclusively with endangered species (including some magical ones). They're very good at catching would-be whistleblowers, whose leftovers are swapped with perfectly mundane ones before they can have them analyzed.

* The colonel from the [[BananaRepublic nameless South American country]] in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' is seen to dine on tapir snout.
* In ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime'', when baby Bowser is choking on stolen cookies, he is offered milk from his caretaker Kamek, who insists it's from an evil cow.
* One "Evil" ''Videogame/SimCity 4'' U-Drive-It mission has you catching endangered fish and then serving them up for dinner to {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s, who will then reward you with a stock market.
* In the ''VideoGame/{{Oddworld}}'' series, {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s have mass-produced such tasty treats as Meech Munchies, discontinued due to the Meeches going extinct, and Gabbiar, made from the eggs of the [[LastOfHisKind all-but-extinct]] Gabbits.

* Played for pragmatism rather than horror in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' by Cu Chulainn (Lancer)'s interlude quest. On a mission to hunt a wild boar that's been ravaging farms, you find that it's been eaten by a chimera which attacks you next. Once you dispatch the chimera, Lancer suggests butchering it, since meat is meat. [[spoiler: After the meal is over, he realizes he doesn't know what animals comprise ''this'' chimera, so [[OhCrap he may have unwittingly eaten dog]].]]

* From the Creator/{{Disney}} version of ''Film/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'' comes the following:

** Subverted a bit here, as Nemo is more of an egomaniac than actually ''evil'', and the original story makes it quite clear that Nemo's whole point with the odd meal is that there's no real need for land-based farming, as the sea is perfectly capable of supplying good-tasting and nutritious food.
** Also subverted in the novel, in which the ''Nautilus'' crew collect milk from a whale for their own consumption, but one that they found freshly-dead rather than killed themselves.

* The unnamed crazy gluttonous Patrician in ''Literature/TheColourOfMagic'' dined on candied jellyfish. He almost exactly matches later descriptions of Mad Lord Snapcase, Vetinari's predecessor, and [[{{Fanon}} in fandom's consensus]] ''is'' Snapcase, though WordOfGod says it was Vetinari. He might've indeed been the ''original'' Pratchett's image of Vetinari, but it's evident that the character was ''heavily'' retooled for the Watch subseries. Apparently, the original fat and crazy Patrician lost the Vetinari name and became Mad Lord Snapcase, while Vetinari became the MagnificentBastard we all know and love. [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in this case, since jellyfish is not endangered, nor is it exotic in some places on Earth; jellyfish salad is a common ''hors d'oeuvre'' in Chinese cuisine, and jellyfish biomass is species-wise comparable with true fish.

** His own cooking may not be evil, but it still seems somewhat strange (stoat sandwiches, anyone?). Of course, that may be because of his [[HalfHumanHybrid giant side]].

* In the ''Franchise/DoctorWho'' [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]] novel ''St. Anthony's Fire'', the BigBad offers the Doctor [[EatsBabies candied baby cheeks]]. After [[ForTheEvulz torturing a kitten]] in an earlier scene.

* One old ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' supplement full of many very short adventures included one in which the source of steaks being served at a newly-popular inn turns out to be either unicorns or purple worms, depending on the DM's preferences. The latter aren't sentient, but they were "harvested" by sawing segments off the rear ends of still-living worms.

* In ''Series/{{Upload}}'', [[AffablyEvil David]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Choak]] casually mentions eating an endangered bird sandwich at one point, and also revels in having the last living black rhino killed so they could program the taste into Lakeview for him to eat.

* On ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'', just to show how messed up the future is, some animals not considered food today, are eaten regularly, like parrots. Not dolphins though, since they're intelligent. Unless they blow all their money on lottery tickets, then it's OK.

** Of course, in the ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' future, rats are endangered and spotted owls are pests.

* One villain in ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretSaturdays'' only wants to eat cryptids.

Overlaps quite nicely with the EvilPoacher, and is often the meal of the CardCarryingVillain. For the clothing equivalent, see FurAndLoathing. If the exotic animals are consumed because they get people high and/or confer special powers to the eater, that's MainliningTheMonster. Related to HauteCuisineIsWeird.

* In ''Literatyre/ArtemisFowl'': The Time Paradox, Damon Kronski acquires a slab of glacial ice that has the last specimens of an extinct species of fish frozen inside it, just so he can serve the fish to guests at a conference he's hosting for [[CruellaToAnimals The Extinctionists]].