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* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''
** In ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl The Curse of the Black Pearl]]'', Elizabeth Swann tries to reject Captain Barbossa's dinner invitation and gown for it.
-->'''Pintel''': If that be da case, den you be dinin' wiv de crew. An' yewll be nekkid. (''She changes her mind.'')

* A variant in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger''. The captured [[spoiler:Dr. Zola of HYDRA]] turns down the offer for a steak dinner, saying he's a vegetarian. Really it's because he suspects the meat is poisoned. Colonel Phillips proceeds to start eating it instead.

May be a reaction to NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine. Sometimes a character who claims I'm Not Hungry may be subjected to ForceFeeding.

* In the 3-part pilot for ''Pokemon Diamond and Pearl'', newbie trainer Dawn offered Piplup some Pokemon food, but due to the Penguin Pokemon's proud nature, he refused. However, his stomach growled, much to his embarrassment and he decided to accept Dawn's offer.

* Frequently invoked by Alphonse Elric in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', to cover up the fact that he [[AnimatedArmor can't actually eat.]]

* A favored tactic of pacifist protesters. [[UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi Mahatma Gandhi]] would be the most successful practitioner.

* Everyone has that one friend who will say this(or some variant) if you're about get something to eat and ask if they want anything, [[SubvertedTrope only to request some of yours once you get your food.]] More likely to happen if a "yes" to the question would require them to buy it themselves.

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* New Yorkers who grew up in the 70s will remember a commercial for the show "Gemini" that seemed to run forever. One character is offered food, refuses, and says "I'm not hungry I'll just pick" as they dive a fork into another character's plate of pasta.

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* ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'': Goofy and Pete were WrongfullyAccused and Goofy entered himself and Pete (against Pete's will) into a hunger strike.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Inspired by [[CesarChavez Cesar Chavez's]] hunger strike, Homer Simpson [[BigEater of all people]] started one to expose the local baseball team's plan to move to Albuquerque. He chained himself next to the skeleton of someone who went into a hunger strike for a bathroom-related protest.

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May be a reaction to NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine. Sometimes a character who claims ImNotHungry may be subjected to ForceFeeding.

* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. A DiscussedTrope in "Dead Reckoning". Reese refuses to eat with his captor, who has him strapped into a bomb vest. She says that it's his way of keeping a sense of control by refusing to cooperate in small ways. She points out that Reese's fellow captor is eating, so Reese will also come to accept the hopelessness of his situation.

** Elizabeth again in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd third film]], [[spoiler:refusing [[AnOfficerAndAGentleman Norrington's]] offer of his quarters to remain with her crew in the brig]].

* Averted in the ''Literature/{{Quiller}}'' novels. Quiller always eats what's offered, because he knows he'll need the energy to escape or resist torture. However in "The Striker Portolio" it's turned back on him; Quiller is surprised to be given caviar and beer, calculates that TamperingWithFoodAndDrink would do no good as they could do that by force, and so eats it for the sustenance. Then he goes to get a drink of water and the tap doesn't work. The alcohol and salty caviar was meant to dehydrate him for the water deprivation torture.

* Creator/CSLewis's ''TheChroniclesOfNarnia: The Horse and His Boy'':

* {{Redwall}}'s ''The Legend of Luke'': Vilu Daskar takes Luke into his cabin for questioning and offers him fruit, which Luke refuses.

* One ''ComicBook/Spider Man'' annual starts with Betty telling the FauxAffablyEvil Deathknight exactly where he can stick his "hospitality", calling him a madman as she does so. (Helsing plans to execute her publically to scare the American government in part of his plan to take over Latveria while Dr. Doom is missing, due to the events of ''Onslaught'').

* One ''{{ComicBook/''Spider Man}}'' annual starts with Betty telling the FauxAffablyEvil Deathknight exactly where he can stick his "hospitality", calling him a madman as she does so. (Helsing plans to execute her publically to scare the American government in part of his plan to take over Latveria while Dr. Doom is missing, due to the events of ''Onslaught''.)

* One ''ComicBook/''Spider Man}}'' annual starts with Betty telling the FauxAffablyEvil Deathknight exactly where he can stick his "hospitality", calling him a madman as she does so. (Helsing plans to execute her publically to scare the American government in part of his plan to take over Latveria while Dr. Doom is missing, due to the events of ''Onslaught''.)

** Bhagat Singh, TechnicalPacifist and all-round {{Badass}}, took this further than Gandhi ever did, going hungry for an unbelievable ''one hundred and sixteen days'' to protest the treatment of prisoners in Lahore jail.

* In ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', Elizabeth Swann tries to reject Captain Barbossa's dinner invitation and gown for it.

** Elizabeth again in the third film, [[spoiler:refusing [[AnOfficerAndAGentleman Norrington's]] offer of his quarters to remain with her crew in the brig]].

* In the second ''Film/MortalKombat'' movie, prisoner Kitana spits Shao Kahn's hospitality right in his face. One can't blame her, considering that her cage didn't have a bathroom...

* In the manga version of ''ChronoCrusade'', [[spoiler:Azmaria]] is kidnapped by the BigBad Aion and taken to his hideout. While there, she's taken to their dining room and served a meal, but she refuses to eat it--citing her reasons that her hosts are "bad people" and hurt her friends. The response of Shader, one of Aion's followers, is to tell her that she's "a good kid, and honest" but "food isn't evil or good". She then eats it and discovers that it's delicious.

->"'''Fine!''' Then go ahead and '''''STARVE!!!'''''"

* In ''TheSarahConnorChronicles'' episode "Allison from Palmdale," one of Cameron's "memories" of [[TheWoobie Allison Young]] involves her refusing to eat a meal that Skynet's machines brought her, instead slamming it against a wall.

* After TheReveal in the ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "ToServeMan", the protagonist is seen on the ship bound for the aliens' homeworld [[spoiler:to become someone's dinner.]] An in-flight meal is offered and an alien telepathically tells him to eat heartily. He responds by angrily flinging the food at the wall. The alien enters the room and scoops the food back onto its tray and asks him to eat again [[spoiler:since the aliens don't want him to lose any weight.]] Realizing the utter hopelessness of his situation, the man gives in and tears into the meal [[spoiler:since it's going to be one of his last.]]

* ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'': Francis led his classmates in the military school into a hunger strike when their TV is confiscated. When the Commander was about to give in, he instead realized the hunger drove Francis unable to be good enough of a negotiator to turn down a ridiculous counter-proposition.

* Sorta invoked by [[spoiler: Mariko Shinobu]] in ''OniisamaE'', after the disastrous birthday party where [[spoiler: she goes {{Yandere}} on Nanako.]] She says she won't eat until she gets [[spoiler: Nanako]]'s forgiveness, but [[spoiler: both Kaoru and Nanako]] give her a WhatTheHellHero instead. (Previously, [[spoiler: her mom Hisako]] tried to appeal to her unsuccessfully, and had decided to give her a dose of ForceFeeding [[spoiler: but doesn't get the chance since Mariko passes out and has to be hospitalised.]]

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