History Main / FedToTheBeast

* The favored pass time of the Quintessons from WesternAnimation/TheTransformers is sentencing the defendants of their [[KangarooCourt “trials”]] to being fed to the [[ThreateningShark Sharkticons]], regardless of whether they’re found innocent [[MortonsFork or]] guilty.

* ''VideoGame/{{Gloomwood}}'': The Slaughtered Goat tavern is currently occupied by the Accursed Beast, an extremely [[LightningBruiser fast]], [[MadeOfIron tough]], and [[ImplacableMan persistent]] monster that has already slaughtered over a dozen huntsmen. Unfortunately for the player you'll need to pass through it in order to progress, and leaving is a lot harder than getting in -- the huntsmen lock the door behind you in hopes that the beast will do their job for them.

Other times, the beast is a RightHandAttackDog -- a pet or other creature that the villain keeps around for some reason, which he uses to dispose of victims, and more than one villain's underling has met their end in this way, usually after they've [[YouHaveFailedMe failed him]] or [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived their usefulness]]. If a villain tries to do this to the hero, expect the hero to kill the beast or escape in some other fashion. It's also not uncommon for villains fond of feeding people to beasts to [[KarmicDeath meet their end]] by [[JustDesserts being eaten by the beast]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard in turn]], if the hero doesn't kill the beast beforehand.

* The ''FanFic/PonyPOVSeries'' sees a heroic example, as [[spoiler: Shining Armor leads [[ClockRoaches the Wolf]] to [[HumanoidAbomination Makarov]] and lets it devour him, triggering a CosmicRetcon to undo all the damage Makarov's done to the timeline. Also, Minuette takes out [[Series/DoctorWho The Master]] by throwing the fob watch that contains his essence at the Wolf, who eats it.]]
* ''FanFic/PurpleDays'' has, in one of its [[GroundhogDayLoop loops]], an insane Daenerys who feeds her enemies to her dragon Drogon. This doesn't work on Joffrey, though: not only is he not intimidated (due to all the experience he has from previous loops, including a battle with an even tougher dragon), [[spoiler:he ''actually manages to kill Drogon''.]]

* In the ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' movie, the vogons attempt to execute Trillian by feeding her to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal.

** ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''. Stromberg drops his treacherous secretary into a SharkPool to be eaten. He tries the same thing on Bond, but Bond manages to avoid falling. Then Bond tries to feed Jaws to the shark, only for [[RussianReversal Jaws to eat the shark]].

* ''Film/SpyHard'': Parodied. After capturing the hero, General Rancor tries to have Agent Dick Steele fed to... [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs a dinosaur]]. He escapes, and it feeds on Rancor's right hand-man instead.

* Done a few times in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'':

** The Priestess is technically a VirginSacrifice for the [[TheFourGods Beast God]] she summons. It also functions as a SecretTestOfCharacter; if she uses her wishes [[GreaterNeedThanMine for the good of others over herself]] ''and'' [[PluckyGirl possesses enough strength of will]], she can escape having her soul eaten. [[spoiler: Out of the four priestesses, two (Miaka and Suzuno) escape, since both are too plucky to be devored. The third (Takiko) [[IllGirl was dying already]] ''and'' [[HeroicSelfDeprecation her strong will was paired with lots of self-hate]], so Genbu started to eat her soul and her dad {{mercy kill}}ed her. The fourth (Yui) is fully devoured due to having been first broken and then manipulated by Nakago, but Miaka uses one of her wishes to bring her BackFromTheDead.]]

* ''Franchise/StarWars''
** Jabba the Hutt was quite fond of feeding people to a Rancor, including Twi'lek slave dancer Oola in a notorious KickTheDog moment in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''. He isn't quite so successful in his attempt to do the same to Luke.
** And once he's short one Rancor, he 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 one ExpandedUniverse story, Jabba's father Zorba tried to throw Leia to the Sarlacc, seeking revenge for his son's death; however, a fight broke out that ended with ''him'' thrown to the creature. Zorba was saved, however (though humiliated even more) when he made the beast sick and it vomited him out.
** In ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', the Geonosians attempted to execute Anakin, Padmé and Obi-Wan by chaining them up in an arena and unleashing three monsters on them: an Acklay (a semi-aquatic lobster-praying mantis hybrid), a Nexu (a porcupine-tiger hybrid with four eyes and two tails), and a Reek (a monster like a cross between a bull and a rhino, with three horns on its head). (Though the trope didn't really apply to the Reek, which was herbivorous; the Acklay and Nexu, however, were most definitely '''''not''''' herbivorous, and tried their damndest to prey on the protagonists).
** In ''Film/{{Solo}}'' this turns out to be how Han and Chewbacca met; Chewie was "the beast". Fortunately Han speaks enough of his language to convince Chewbacca that they can work together to escape.
* M. Bison in the film of ''Film/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.
* In the first ''Film/{{Superman}}'' movie, ComicBook/LexLuthor keeps a pit with some vicious beasts (that are never seen) in his lair. After his plan to destroy California fails, his PerkyFemaleMinion is almost thrown to them (she being the one who helped Superman and enabled him to stop the missiles) but fortunately for her, Superman shows up in time.

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' had a unique variant of this. A Yeerk who had displeased the Visser one too many times was fed to a natural Yeerk predator nicknamed the Yeerkbane. I believe Vanarx was the actual name. It enveloped the host's head with its mouth and sucked the Yeerk right out of the host's head. Yikes.
** He also enjoys feeding them to the Taxxons.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Birdman}}''. In the episode "Hannibal the Hunter", Hannibal trapped Birdman in a net and arranged for him to be dropped into a pit with two lions in it so they could eat him.

* In the Discworld novel ''Literature/{{Pyramids}}'', being thrown to crocodiles is one of the standard methods of execution in Djelibeybi. When their gods manifest ''en masse'' and start trashing the country, the crowd of priests who gather to gawk start throwing ''each other'' to the reptiles whenever one of them says something disparaging about the rampaging deities.

** Jabba the Hutt was quite fond of feeding people to a Rancor, including Twi'lek slave dancer Oola in a notorious KickTheDog moment. He isn't quite so successful in his attempt to do the same to Luke.

** The Geonosians attempted to execute Anakin, Padmé and Obi-Wan by chaining them up in an arena and unleashing three monsters on them: an Acklay (a semi-aquatic lobster-praying mantis hybrid), a Nexu (a porcupine-tiger hybrid with four eyes and two tails), and a Reek (a monster like a cross between a bull and a rhino, with three horns on its head). (Though the trope didn't really apply to the Reek, which was herbivorous; the Acklay and Nexu, however, were most definitely '''''not''''' herbivorous, and tried their damndest to prey on the protagonists).

* Kim Jong Un apparently had his uncle fed to dogs.

* In ''VideoGame/BalloonFight'', if you fly too close to the water's edge, a giant fish will leap up and [[EatenAlive eat you]]. The fish also occasionally eats any defeated enemies.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Drakensang}} 2: The River of Time'', the vile commander of Thurstone Fortress Stitus Bloomfold (think of a midget version of Dom De Luise) has a taste for rare pets, which he feeds with hapless prisoners from time to time. Said critters include war hounds, wild boars, wolves and a bear. Later he tries to feed the party to his favourite beastie, [[spoiler: a [[GiantSquid Newt Kraken]]]], but ends up suffering a KarmicDeath instead, as Forgrimm lampshades.
* Players of ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' frequently build pits containing large and vile-tempered captured creatures. Sometimes these are trained, sometimes they're not. Crocodiles, zombies, wolves... people even build giant cave spider pits, and harvest the web left after a successful termination.
* In ''VideoGame/EnchantedScepters'', the punishment for violating the CopyProtection is random teleportation to an arena inhabited by a UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' ''Wasteland Workshop'', you can capture raiders to your settlements and pit them with your pet Deathclaws.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', Ganondorf, in his crossing of the MoralEventHorizon, tries to have all the Gorons fed to the great lava dragon Volvagia as an example of what happens to those who defy him.
* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', an optional cutscene has the Ganados feeding a dead police officer to [[StockNessMonster Del Lago]].
* In ''VideoGame/TheSimsMedieval'', the Pit of Judgment is home to a giant [[CombatTentacles tentacled]] beast, who eats those sentenced to death.
* ''Videogame/{{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, however, ends up killing both of them.