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The SharkPool and the SnakePit are two quite common forms of this particular trope.

* In the [[Literature/JamesBond James Bond novel]] ''Live and Let Die'', Felix Leiter is caught snooping around the villains' warehouse and partially fed to a shark (the basis for his maiming in ''LicenceToKill'', including the [[BondOneLiner "He disagreed with something that ate him"]] note). Later, Bond and Solitaire are to be dragged through a reef until their blood attracts sharks to eat them (this was used in ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'').

** ''Thunderball''. Largo has one of his mooks fed to sharks after he [[YouHaveFailedMe botches]] an attempt on 007's life.
** ''TheSpyWhoLovedMe''. Stromberg drops his treacherous secretary into a SharkPool to be eaten.
** ''YouOnlyLiveTwice''. Blofeld drops a henchman [[YouHaveFailedMe who failed him]] into a [[SharkPool Piranha Pool]].

** ''LicenceToKill''. Sanchez badly maims Felix Leiter by having him thrown into a SharkPool in revenge for his role in his capture as the rest of his men murder Della, Felix's new wife. Bond starts his RoaringRampageOfRevenge by feeding Killifer, the bribed DEA agent who helped to spring Sanchez, to the shark in turn.

* In the {{Conan}} story, "The Scarlet Citadel," Tsotha imprisons Conan in the dungeons below the title citadel, with the intent of having him be eaten by Satha, another big-ass snake. The snake ends up killing a slave of Tsotha's who was planning to kill Conan in revenge for his brother's death during Conan's pirate days, when he was called Amra.

** The Geonosians actually did this with an Acklay (a semi-aquatic lobster-praying mantis hybrid), a Nexu (a porcupine-tiger hybrid with four eyes), and a Reek (a minotaurlike monster with three horns on its head).

* TheRescuersDownUnder: Mcleach tries to feed Cody to some crocodiles

* In TheSimsMedieval, the Pit of Judgment is home to a giant [[CombatTentacles tentacled]] beast, who eats those sentenced to death.

Feeding people to monsters or man-eating animals is one of the classic perils that villains and others subject people to.

* M. Bison in the film of ''StreetFighter'' attempts to do this, proclaiming his idea to the would-be victims in (OF COURSE!) wonderfully [[LargeHam hammy]] fashion. Blanka, the "beast" in question, has other ideas.

* Shao Kahn disposes of [[TheMole Jade]] this way for failing to kill the heroes in ''Mortal Kombat Annihilation'', feeding her to a monster carving in a wall (and for extra {{Narm}} points, the carving gives out a great big burp after it's done with her).

* {{''Phineas & Ferb'': Across the 2nd Dimension}} begins mid-day with P&F seemingly about to meet this fate.

Sometimes this is a HumanSacrifice to a demon, dragon, EldritchAbomination, or some other monster or beast. These scenarios usually have some poor unfortunate ChainedToARock awaiting their doom. Maybe the local religion demands this to be done to AppeaseTheVolcanoGod. Maybe the monster wants tribute in the form of people to eat, such as with many dragons. Maybe this is even meant as a punishment, in the case of Daniel in the lion's den from TheBible or Andromeda from ClassicalMythology.

*** ''AustinPowers: International Man of Mystery''. In an ShoutOut to ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'', Dr. Evil tries to feed Austin and Vanessa to ill-tempered mutant sea bass using an UnnecessarilySlowDippingMechanism.

* TheBible has the story of Daniel, who was thrown into a lion's den due to a law that some princes had tricked King Darius, who liked Daniel, into passing because they were jealous of his faith and hard work. Daniel, who has always been faithful to the Lord, was protected by one of God's angels, who shut the mouths of the lions. When the king learned that Daniel was still alive after spending the entire night in the den, he had Daniel taken out of the lion's den and the princes and their families thrown in instead, where they promptly got eaten by the lions. [[OlderThanDirt Which makes this...]]
** Christians in Roman times were often fed to lions in the arena as well.

** ''Film/LiveAndLetDie''. Kananga tries to feed JamesBond and Solitaire to his pet shark.

* In ''FushigiYuugi'', the Priestess is technically a VirginSacrifice for the [[TheFourGods Beast God]] she summons. It also functions as a SecretTestOfCharacter; if she uses her wishes for the good of others over herself and possesses enough strength of will, she can escape having her soul eaten.

* Has happened to AlexRider at least once in his career.

* In the [[Literature/JamesBond James Bond novel]] ''Live and Let Die'', Felix Leiter is caught snooping around the villains' warehouse and partially fed to a shark (the basis for his maiming in ''LicenceToKill'', including the [[BondOneLiner "He disagreed with something that ate him"]] note). Later, Bond and Solitaire are to be dragged through a reef until their blood attracts sharks to eat them (this was used in ''ForYourEyesOnly'').

* ''{{Game/Yakuza}} 2'' has Sengoku trying to feed Kiryu Kazuma to his two pet tigers after Kazuma [[PapaWolf tears through his men to get Haruka back]]. Kazuma being a consummate {{badass}}, however, he ends up killing both of them.

** ''LiveAndLetDie''. Kananga tries to feed JamesBond and Solitaire to his pet shark.
*** ''AustinPowers: International Man of Mystery''. In an ShoutOut to ''LiveAndLetDie'', Dr. Evil tries to feed Austin and Vanessa to ill-tempered mutant sea bass using an UnnecessarilySlowDippingMechanism.