History Main / FoodChainOfEvil

** Ultraman 80: Zakira attempts this with an infant Baru, but fails.

* In ''{{Rodan}}'', the titular giant pterosaur is first introduced as a predator that eats the BigCreepyCrawlies that had previously been the threat in the movie.

* The progressively bigger fish from ''[[StarWars The Phantom Menace]]'' eat ''anything'', but humans are possible prey.

* ''UltramanMebius'' has the monster Bogal, whose entire MO is eating other monsters. In fact its [[BossSubtitles boss subtitle]] is "Hyper Dimensional Predator."

->''The Ogre philosopher Gnerdel believed the purpose of life was to live as high on the food chain as possible. She refused to eat vegetarians, preferring to live entirely on creatures that preyed on sentient beings.''\\
-- ''MagicTheGathering'', Gray Ogre

-- Mayor Rudgutter, "PerdidoStreetStation"

->"At the end there, [[DealWithTheDevil when I was trying to cut a deal]], the ambassador was ''scared''. . .That's why he wouldn't come to our aid. That's why we're on our own. ''[[OhCrap Because the demons are afraid of what we're hunting.]]''"

--Mayor Rudgutter, "PerdidoStreetStation"

->"At the end there, when I was trying to cut a deal, the ambassador was scared. . .That's why he wouldn't come to our aid. That's why we're on our own. Because the demons are afraid of what we're hunting."
--"Perdido Street Station

If vampires are so strong because they eat humans, how strong would something that eats vampires be? Pretty totally awesome, right? A species that eats vampires is usually introduced when a vampire hunting story has run the vampires into the ground and needs something higher on the SortingAlgorithmOfEvil to make a villain.

Anything which eats monsters that eat humans should count. Basically, this is power tiers established via fictional food chain.

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** And these slake moths are only halfway up the foodchain in their homeland. It's that kind of world.

* The Menos Grande from ''{{Bleach}}'' are created when the hunger of a group of [[TheHeartless Hollows]] becomes so great that they start feeding on each other, resulting in them merging into a near-mindless skyscraper-sized beast. If one of the consistuent personalities can gain control of the others, then continuing to consume other Hollows eventually pushes them across the BishonenLine to become the human-like and insanely powerful Vasto Lordes.

* ''MahouShoujoMadokaMagica'': Humans are eaten by witches, who are in turn eaten by... {{Magical Girl}}s!? ...Yeah, it's [[{{Deconstruction}} that kind]] [[DarkerAndEdgier of series]].

* ''MahouShoujoMadokaMagica'': Humans are eaten by witches, who are in turn eaten by... {{Magical Girl}}s!? ...Yeah, it's [[{{Deconstruction that kind]] [[DarkerAndEdgier of series]].

* The main issue in ''PerdidoStreetStation'' by China Mieville are slake moths, giant dream and mind eating moths that scare the living crap out of ''devils''. In fact the slake moths are even shown to have eaten a vampire at one point in the book.

* The main issue in ''PerdidoStreetStation'' by China Mieville are slake moths, giant dream and mind eating moths that scare the living crap out of ''devils''.

* In ''VampireTheRequiem'', any vampire with Blood Potency 7 can get bit by the need to dirnk the blood of another camp. There are drawbacks: addiction and the risk of being mind controled by the victim. They can also get addicted to soul-eating other vampires through diablerie. Usually, any vamp getting this high a Blood Potency either ate his way up or existed for a very long time, both of which tend to make you extremely powerful. In the case of the former, they also tend to be quite psychotic due to diablerie eating away at your [[KarmaMeter Humanity]]. Supplements have featured both the Macellarius, who gain the ability to truly digest food and a gourmand's desire for strange flesh and the Noctuku who have a compulsion to eat the flesh of their victims as well as drink their blood, despite it providing no benefit to them -- it's more a dominance thing.

* In the [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen.htm Mortasheen]] series of monsters on Bogleech.com, there is an EldritchAbomination-esque thing called a [[http://scythemantis.deviantart.com/art/Mortasheen-Vaccuthax-101491269 Vaccuthax]] that eats only vampires.

* One of the non-canon 'Angel' comic books had him deal with the returning threat of a giant tentacle monsters that ate vampires.

* The Reapers in ''{{Blade}} II'', though they were not above snacking on humans too. The only way to kill them was the sun, as they had a solid bone plate over their heart, and easily healed from a broken neck. They could probably survive decapitation as well, judging from that one former vampire to still move his eyes around when the rest of him was destroyed.
* [[spoiler:Subverted]] in ''{{Godzilla}} 2000''. [[spoiler:In the climax of the movie, Orga attempts to swallow Godzilla whole. Godzilla uses his Nuclear Pulse on its insides and kills it.]]

* Marcus from {{Underworld}}: Evolution becomes a vampire/lycan hybrid. From this point, he becomes pretty much omnivorous.

* There's that race from StarTrekVoyager that kills the Borg.
** Species 8472. They also see our entire galaxy as impure, and plan on killing everything else after they finish with the Borg.

* Possible Inversion. In StargateAtlantis, the Wraith are a terrifying race of lifeforce vampires who hunt, herd, and generally rule over humanity as a food source. However, [[spoiler:when Lt Ford was being fed upon, the process was interrupted and he discovered that the Wraith, in order to allow them feed longer, inject their victims with a powerful stimulant that makes the victim stronger. Cue Ford and some other Wraith survivors around the galaxy forming a group that hunts the wraith, harvesting their corpses for more sweet, sweet PsychoSerum]]
** Played straight in the same series, however, when the team discovers the Asurans, machines created by the Ancients to combat the Wraith. When the Asurans are activated, they become a much bigger threat than the Wraith when they decide to kill the Wraith by eliminating their food source.... humans. (Until they are dealt with, of course.)

* Not vampires, but even the giant spiders in ''HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'' fear the basilisk.
** Ahh, but even the mighty basilisk is afraid of [[spoiler:roosters.]]
*** And [[spoiler:roosters]] fear humans, which fear giant spiders, which fear basilisks, which fear [[spoiler:roosters]]... My head hurts.
* Loevecraft's Great Race of Yith, for all their power and clear superiority, seem terrified of the [[CthulhuMythos half-material entities]] [[SealedEvilInACan sealed beneath the earth.]]

* The main issue in PerdidoStreetStation by China Mieville are [[spoiler:slake moths, giant dream and mind eating moths that scare the living crap out of DEVILS.]]

* In ''[[VampireTheMasquerade Vampire: The Masquerade]]'', any vampire of a sufficiently high generation (close to Cain, the first) can develop the "Elder's Thirst", a restriction leaving them only able to feed on other vampires. In addition, being so powerful means their capacity for holding blood can be ten times that of a neonate, so when they're running on empty it takes a lot to fill them up. Lucky (for them) then that vampire blood is much more filling than mortal blood... As you'd expect, being so ancient and all-powerful these guys were walking DeusExMachina's, as most vampires in the setting bear at least a slight fear of [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Gehenna]], when the Antediluvians will rise from torpor to devour their offspring.
** In ''VampireTheRequiem'', any vampire (including PC's!) who get to Blood Potency 7 have this happen to them. They're also not exempt from the drawbacks of feeding on another vampire's blood; they can still get addicted or made easily mind controlled like when they were younger. They can also get addicted to soul-eating other vampires through diablerie (although any vampire can engage in diablerie and risk addiction to it, it's just that elders who constantly feed off of vampires get more temptations to diablerize them as well). Usually, any vamp getting this high a Blood Potency either ate his way up or existed for a very long time, both of which tend to make you extremely powerful. In the case of the former, they also tend to be quite psychotic due to diablerie eating away at your [[KarmaMeter Humanity]].
** Also in ''VampireTheMasquerade'', humans can be empowered somewhat by feeding them vampire blood. Usually these become quite effectively enslaved to their donor but sometimes they decide to go independent and find their own supplies.
*** One sourcebook detailed this in Vlad the Impaler's backstory. He wasn't ever a blood thrall, but before he was Embraced himself, he fed on captured Tzimisce, and shared the blood with loyal elite troops, thereby establishing himself higher on the food chain than the clan that had been terrorizing so many similar small European kingdoms.
** And then there are the vampiric cannibals. ''Masquerade'' features the Nagaraja, an obscure bloodline that requires a little bit of flesh with their blood. whereas ''Requiem'' supplements have featured both the Macellarius (who gain the ability to truly digest food and a gourmand's desire for strange flesh) and the Noctuku (who have a compulsion to eat the flesh of their victims as well as drink their blood, despite it providing no benefit to them - it's more a dominance thing).
* Arguably the Necrons of ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'', the only race in existence with a working game plan to permanently destroy Chaos (a sentient [[TheDarkSide dark side]] that operates by TheCorruption when it isn't taking matters into its own hands). Necrons are the entities that ''daemons'' are scared of.
** Though show me the Daemon player scared of the Necron player.
* In Dungeons&Dragons, Bebiliths are literally DemonicSpiders whose favorite prey is other demons.

* Goes one step further in [[http://www.partiallyclips.com/index.php?id=1165 this]] PartiallyClips comic.

* In The Snorks, the main characters had to deal with a predatory species called "Snork Eaters" once in a while, but in one episode they introduced another character who was a "Snork Eater Eater.".''
* An episode of ''{{Futurama}}'' dealt with a "Sub-Sewer Mutant" that the regular Sewer Mutants feared.
** That's just a [[IncrediblyLamePun Sub-Urban Legend]].

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-->''The Ogre philosopher Gnerdel believed the purpose of life was to live as high on the food chain as possible. She refused to eat vegetarians, preferring to live entirely on creatures that preyed on sentient beings.''
--->--''MagicTheGathering'', Gray Ogre

** That's just a Sub-Urban Legend.

* Loevecraft's Great Race of Yith, for all their power and clear superiority, seem terrified of the[[CthulhuMythos half-material entities]] [[SealedEvilInACan sealed beneath the earth.]]

* Vampires are extinct in ''{{DMFA}}'', as they had more powerful competitors like [[HornyDevils Cubi]], and the [[YourVampiresSuck nasty, inconvenient weakness against sunlight]].

*** And [[spoiler:roosters]] fear humans, which fear giant spiders, which fear basilisks, which fear [[spoiler:roosters]]... My head hurts.
* Loevecraft's Great Race of Yith, for all their power and clear superiority, seem terrified of the[[CthulhuMythos half-material entities]] [[SealedEvilInACan sealed beneath the earth.]]

* Inverted in the original novel of ''IAmLegend''. The significance of the title is that, to the [[spoiler: living, sapient vampires rebuilding civilization]], Robert Neville is a terrifying monster who can hunt them during the day.

* A''{{Robot Chicken}}'' Charlie Brown sketch has the great pumpkin being eaten by the kite eating tree