History Main / FedToTheBeast

* ''VideoGame/EnchantedScepters'': The punishment for violating the CopyProtection is random teleportation to an arena inhabited by a UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedius_Pollio Vedius Pollio]], a wealthy man who governed AncientRome's Province of Asia during the first century BCE, executed slaves who offended him by throwing them into a pool full of lampreys-- bloodsucking, jawless fish. This ended when he tried to execute one slave while Emperor Augustus was a guest in his house. The Emperor intervened, halted the execution, and had the lamprey pool filled in.

** There's another Creator/RayHarryhausen example in ''Film/TheGoldenVoyageOfSinbad'', when the islanders offer up the heroine, Margiana, as a HumanSacrifice to one of their gods: a cycloptic, cave-dwelling centaur. In a FriendOrIdolDecision, Sinbad and his crew go into the pit after her, letting the villain escape with the [[MacGuffin magic amulet]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Robotomy}}'': "[[Recap/Robotomy02BlingThing Bling Thing]]": The main form of entertainment at the Maul is the gorgon, an alien monster that's fed a steady stream of live robots. The victims seem to consider this to be something like a fair park ride, and after being devoured crawl back out the other end.

* Done a few times in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'':
** In the episode "A Loss Of Smurf", Vanity as a Wartmonger accidentally wakes up the Creepodile in the Pussywillow Hollow swamp region, and Wartmonger legends say that it won't rest until it eats a king, so King Bullrush upon finding out who woke the creature up made Vanity king so that the beast will go after Vanity instead. The Smurflings help rescue Vanity by making the Creepodile feast on a gourd dressed up in royal clothes instead.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'' episode "Clutches of the Creature King". After the title villain captures Space Ghost he puts him in an arena and forces him to fight all of the Creature King's creatures without his power bands.

* ''[[Fanfic/StarWarsVsWarhammer40K Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K]]'': In the VillainOpeningScene from Episode 21, Lord Inquisitor Tahr Whyler feeds a hapless Imperial Guard subordinate named Javrick to his pet [[HumanoidAbomination daemonhost]] Jackal after Tahr is finished delivering a [[JustBetweenYouAndMe villainous monologue]] in which he explains his whole EvilPlan to a terrified Javrick.

* In AncientRome, convicts found guilty of heinous crimes could be "sentenced to the beasts" (''damnatio ad bestias''), which meant that the condemned was sent into the arena with a weapon, facing predatory animals such as lions, panthers, or bears. This was the equivalent of a death sentence, though there was a slim chance of pardon if the convict fought bravely. ''Damnatio ad bestias'' differs from ''objicere bestiis'' ("throw to the beasts"), in which the victim was unarmed and possibly fettered.

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* In the [[Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017 live-action remake]] of ''Beauty and The Beast'', Gaston abandons Maurice in the woods to become meat for the wolves.

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* ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'' has the HumanSacrifice variety: Sammy attempts to feed Henry to Bendy, the resident Ink Demon. Instead, [[spoiler: Bendy kills Sammy]], and Henry escapes.

* ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002'': [[FakeUltimateHero Captain Qwark]] has the titular duo lured to the pit of a Blargian Snagglebeast in the hopes it would eat them and get [[BigBad Drek's]] approval. It doesn't work out as intended; the Snagglebeast is killed, Drek berates Qwark for his failure, and [[CreateYourOwnVillain Ratchet]] [[PayEvilUntoEvil seeks murderous revenge]].
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'': An optional cutscene has the Ganados feeding a dead police officer to [[StockNessMonster Del Lago]].

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* One of [[TheManyDeathsOfYou the numerous ways to die]] in ''VisualNovel/BoyfriendToDeath'' involves Sano and Akira sending their pet monster at you. [[CrossesTheLineTwice Then Akira takes said pet monster out for a walk]].
* ''VisualNovel/MoeNinjaGirls'': At the end of the Book of Nine-Tails, [[spoiler:the Secretary betrays the Former Owner and feeds him to the Nine-Tailed Fox]].
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-->I'll kill you, grind you up, feed you to starving children, then feed '''those''' starving kids to '''other''' starving kids to make a race of '''SUPER''' starving kids, which '''I''' will then eat...

* The Joker threatens to throw people to his hyenas in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', though whether or not he actually follows through on this threat is rather unclear.
** In at least one case ("The Man Who Killed Batman"), he shoves a minion to the hyenas for "asking stupid questions". However, the trope is toned down; the minion shows up later with a just a few bandages.

* In the first [[WhatIf "Anthology of Interest"]] episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' which asks the question "What if Leela was more impulsive?" she actually murders every member of the cast (except Fry, who she seduces) starting with Farnsworth, who she throws to his man-eating anteaters.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb:''

* In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books, Voldemort generally feeds his victims to his snake, Nagini, although they're usually (if not always) dead first.
** Well of course they're usually dead. He doesn't want them hurting his snake by struggling, after all. [[spoiler: Especially since the snake is one of his many [[SoulJar Horcruxes]].]]

* Myth/ClassicalMythology had Andromeda ChainedToARock to be eaten by a sea-monster called a Cetus as punishment for her mother's boastfulness about Andromeda's beauty being greater than that of the Nereids (who got pissed and complained to Poseidon, one of the many JerkassGods of the pantheon). She's rescued by Perseus, who turns Ceto to stone with the head of Medusa.

* OlderThanFeudalism: ''Literature/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 had 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.

* The snake-obsessed Kobra organization in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' uses a variant of this. Any member who fails their duties, or anyone else who knows too much about their operations, is dropped into a pit of venomous snakes where they are presumably bitten to death. One member actually commits suicide by leaping in to avoid capture after believing he has exposed Batman's true identity to rest of the organization, gloating to the hero about how he'll be regarded as a martyr to the organization before doing so. [[spoiler:They likely actually regarded him as a complete idiot; when he read a boy's mind using a computer to get an image of Terry's face, the kid replaced it with that of an action hero from a cartoon that he admired, because that's how he envisioned Batman.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'': In "The Mermen of Emor", the mermen attempt to do this to Jimmy Olsen and two other captured scuba divers as part of their annual games: first with lion sharks, and then a killer whale.

* Tribal societies that, historically, used exile as a punishment for crime usually presumed that those outcast would die from exposure or starvation. But, in regions and seasons when dangerous animals were common, expulsion from the group probably resulted in this trope for more than a few such outcasts.

** Also from Ancient Rome, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedius_Pollio Vedius Pollio]] executed a slave by throwing him into a pool full of lampreys-- bloodsucking jawless fish.

The SharkPool and the SnakePit are two quite common forms of this particular trope. So is FedToPigs, although the victim is usually already dead in that case. (Usually.) Also related as AnimalAssassin, a more clandestine way of killing people using animals.

Subtrope of EatingTheEnemy

* UsefulNotes/IdiAmin Dada, when he was President of Uganda, often ordered people executed by feeding them to crocodiles.

*** Once he's short one Rancor, Jabba tries it again with the sarlacc. This would have been a [[FateWorseThanDeath considerably worse fate than merely being eaten and killed]], as apparently sarlaccs [[AndIMustScream keep their prey alive for a thousand years while they're slowly and painfully digested.]]

* In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3'', the villainous High Evolutionary attemps to kill Mantis, Nebula and Drax by lowering them into a pit with three Abilisks, giant tentacled monsters with impenetrable skin. However, Mantis realizes that they only eat batteries and were serving the High Evolutionary out of fear, and so uses her empathetic powers to calm them down and show they were not a threat.

* [[spoiler:Giovanni]] ends up killed and eaten by a drugged Persian in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' fanfic ''FanFic/TheDarkSideOfInnocence''. [[spoiler:Mondo]] and Meowth planned it out specifically as revenge for him using dangerous experimental drugs on various Pokemon and humans, including James.

'''Arthur:''' What? ''What?'' (to Tick) WHAT?!\\
'''The Tick:''' *Ahem* Standard villain procedure.

** In "Sandkings", Dr. Simon Kress, whose mind has become increasingly warped since being infected with the venom of a red sandking, feeds his former supervisor Dave Stockley to the starving sandkings.