History Main / FoodChainOfEvil

** ComicBook/{{Galactus}}:
*** Galactus is first introduced by showing the Skrulls, some of the most threatening villains the Fantastic Four had faced up until then, terrified of him and doing their best to conceal their home planet so he wouldn't find and eat it. In a later story, Galactus successfully devours the Skrull homeworld and its inhabitants.
*** Galactus himself was once considered a prospective meal, along with the rest of the universe, for an interdimensional being known as Hunger.

** ''ComicBook/{{Venom}}'': A few stories feature xenophages, monsters that feed on symbiotes such as Venom itself.

* ''ComicBook/WitchDoctor'': [[spoiler: Penny Dreadful]] is a cryptophage: a monster whose diet consists ''entirely'' of other monsters.

* ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'': In ''The Girl Who Cried Monster'', Lucy spends most of the story terrified of one of the series' man-eating humanoid monsters. At the end, [[spoiler:it's revealed that her family is made up of even more fearsome monsters when her parents eat the first monster in retribution for coming into their territory]].

* In ''The Skin Trade'' a novella by Creator/GeorgeRRMartin, the boogeyman for werewolves in the town is a demon known as Skinner, which lives inside mirrors and is relentless in its hunt until it manages to take a werewolf.

* ''Film/{{Evolution}}'': During the stage of alien evolution where the meteor crash site resembles the Carboniferous Era, numerous monsters are shown preying on each other.

* ''WebOriginal/{{Mortasheen}}'' includes the [[http://scythemantis.deviantart.com/art/Mortasheen-Vaccuthax-101491269 Vaccuthax]], an EldritchAbomination that only eats vampires.

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': Species 8472 are Borg biters. They see our entire galaxy as impure, and plan on killing everything else after they finish chowing down on the Borg.

* The Franchise/UltraSeries does this occasionally with its {{kaiju}}.

* ''Literature/AnnoDracula'': In one short story, the parents of the slain vampire Carmilla had her resurrected as a {{Homunculus}}. Even more unnatural than your standard vampire, the homunculus can only be sustained by the blood of an Elder vampire, which she does through [[TooManyMouths sucking mouths in her hands]].

* ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'': The Crusniks, who eat vampires. Though three of the four Crusniks to ever exist have been friendly to humanity (to an extent), including the hero Abel Nightroad.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In an early episode, a particularly fearsome vampire is sent running at the sight of the She-Mantis, who wasn't even in her true form at the time.
* ''Series/{{Community}}'', "Horror Fiction In Seven Spooky Steps": "I am a werewolf who feeds on selfish vampires."

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': Monsters based on OrganicTechnology combined with {{Nanomachines}} left behind by the NeglectfulPrecursors called the Old World, originally designed to serve as security for facilities, evolve and change their capabilities based on what monsters they eat, and spend more time eating each other than humans off-screen, resulting in dramatically different subspecies. Being good enough at this results in the monster becoming a {{Kaiju}} that requires a massive effort to take down (or just a high level hunter).

* ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'': Vampires are extinct, as they had more powerful competitors like [[HornyDevils Cubi]], and the [[YourVampiresSuck nasty, inconvenient weakness against sunlight]].

* In ''VideoGame/DungeonMunchies'', the numerous wild monsters in the dungeon try to eat your zombie protagonist, as rotting human flesh is a delicious and nutritious food source for them. In turn, your protagonist hunts down and cooks these wild monsters to satisfy his
own supernatural hunger, and power himself up to fight stronger beasts.

* ''VideoGame/PaperMario'': In the first game, Tubba Blubba eats Boos.

* ''VideoGame/LittleNightmares'': Children like Six are [[ImAHumanitarian chopped up and used to make food]] for [[VillainousGlutton the Guests]] who come to visit the Maw. The Guests themselves either eat themselves to death [[HoistByHisOwnPetard and become food for other Guests]] or [[spoiler: get their life force sucked out by [[BigBad The Lady]], mistress of the Maw.]]

* ''Webcomic/PartiallyClips'': Goes one step further in [[http://partiallyclips.com/2003/11/30/bounty-hunter/ this]] comic. A BountyHunter seeking to join an EvilOverlord's forces is informed that [[CardCarryingVillain he needs to meet a certain standard of evil]] to join said overlord's armies. As a comparison, he's told of the Pnuxi, "a race so evil that they eat only sentient beings... which eat '''other''' sentient beings". [[UpToEleven The bounty hunter remarks that they sound delicious]].

Humans are the dominant species. We're at the top of the food chain. [[CriticalResearchFailure That means that literally]] ''[[CriticalResearchFailure nothing]]'' [[CriticalResearchFailure in the world can successfully prey on humans]] (except maybe [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame other]] [[ImAHumanitarian humans]]). That's part of what makes a lot of monsters scary and badass; they dethrone us from our position of power.

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* A recurring theme in early chapters of ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'' is that dungeon monsters have an ecosystem too. Weak monsters get eaten by strong monsters, which get eaten by stronger monsters. Monsters get stronger the further down you go, but powerful floor bosses BeefGate them from overrunning the upper levels. It’s a fine, self-sustaining system... until DungeonCrawling adventurers get in, looking for treasure and killing as they go. Then, with their natural checks dead, those strong monsters start proliferating upwards, and when they reach the surface... well, it’s bad news for anyone living nearby.

* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Dragons'': One of the backstory options presented for a campaign setting where dragons have overrun a fantasy world is based on the dangers of tampering with such food chains. In this case, dragons normally produce huge numbers of offspring that another species of monster habitually preys on, keeping their numbers very low. Then the dragon-eating monsters are wiped out by humanoids who see them as threats, and, well...

* In ''VideoGame/DungeonMunchies'', the numerous wild monsters in the dungeon try to eat your zombie protagonist, as rotting human flesh is a delicious and nutritious food source for them. In turn, your protagonist hunts down and cooks these wild monsters to satisfy his own supernatural hunger, and power himself up to fight stronger beasts.

* ''Literature/TheOneWhoEatsMonsters'': Erynis, the protagonist, is a goddess of vengeance who is classified as a monster because her powers are chaotic. She exists to punish evil in all its forms, her preferred victims are other monsters, and she eats their hearts after killing them. Erynis has been so successfull in her mission that other supernatural beings named her [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast 'The Implacable One']].

* ''Literature/AnnoDracula'': In one short story, the parents of the slain vampire Carmilla had her resurrected as a {{Homunculus}}. Even more unnatural than your standard vampire, the homunculus can onlybe sustained by the blood of an Elder vampire, which does through [[TooManyMouths sucking mouths in her hands]].

* In ''TheSkin Trade'' a novella by Creator/GeorgeRRMartin, the boogeyman for werewolves is a demon known as Skinner, which lives inside mirrors and is relentless in its hunt until it manages to take a werewolf.

* In ''Skin Trade'' a novella by Creator/GeorgeRRMartin, the boogeyman for werewolves is a demon known as Skinner, which lives inside mirrors and is relentless in its hunt until it manages to take a werewolf.