History Main / InappropriateHunger

* The first time Manga/InuYasha eats ramen, it's in the middle of an old battlefield. Kagome questions how he can eat in such a place.

* In ''Film/GoneInSixtySeconds2000'' the not-really-mute character played by Vinnie Jones first appears when he's contacted by phone. He is shown in a morgue, his work place, and when notified that he's been called, he leaves his sandwich on a dead man.

-->'''Holtzmann:''' You try saying no to these salty parabolas.

--->'''James Sunderland''' This town is FULL of monsters! How can you sit there and eat pizza?!

* Eddie Dombrowski in ''Videgame/SilentHill2''. In the middle of the infamous deserted town, he inexplicably had conjured a fresh, hot pizza out of nowhere when James meets him in the abandoned bowling alley, and sits and eats it rather than help him find Laura.

The characters are in a disgusting situation. Maybe they're looking at dead bodies, maybe it's alien goo. Everyone will be disgusted... except the one guy who suddenly wants a burger.

* Adopting one of the [[CreepyChild Little Sisters]] in ''VideoGame/BioShock2'' usually results in some [[CrowningMomentOfFunny interesting battle commentary]]; for example, if you use the [[PlayingWithFire Incinerate Plasmid]] to set an enemy on fire, the Little Sister will start asking for marshmallows.

Compare ObsessedWithFood and TheSnackIsMoreInteresting. Contrast LostMyAppetite, VomitingCop. See also AutopsySnackTime.

* In ''Film/{{Thor}}'', after [[spoiler:Thor has been banished and Loki has taken the throne]], the Warriors Three's discussion on what to do starts with Fandral calling [[BigEater Volstagg]] out for chowing down. Volstagg shouts back that Fandral should not "mistake my appetite for apathy."

--->'''Krogan''': Looks like worms. ''Dead'' worms. This is a human thing?

-->'''Amber:... Alfie, how could you possibly be eating at a time like this?\\
'''Alfie:... I always eat when I'm scared. Or nervous. Or...happy, come to think of it.\\
'''Amber:... Or any day with a 'y' in it...

* In ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'', Midora's undying literal and figurative hunger only stopped after Frohze fed him with her cooking and love. Them she died saving him from the mortal injuries he sustained while trying to help ''her''. As he kneels at her grave, Midora is disgusted with himself when he realizes he's starving again. He punches his own stomach telling it to shut up, but it won't stop growling. For the past ''four hundred years'', he's been futilely trying to eat away his pain.

* In ''FushigiYuugi'', just before the FinalBattle Miaka and Tamahome decide they might not get a chance to do it later, so they might as well have sex (completely disregarding [[VirginPower the rules]] [[NoHuggingNoKissing Miaka is held to]]). Before they get too far into the act, however, Miaka's stomach growls and totally kills the mood, so they stop.

* In the ''[[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]]'' episode "Bad Blood", Scully's autopsy of a victim reveals his last meal was pizza. Scully thinks that sounds pretty good.

** It should also be noted that Garibaldi's father, and Garibaldi himself, is a pretty good cook (it's hinted that his father may actually have been professional, what with the bagna cauda.)

* In ''Series/GameOfThrones'', a brutal torturer called the Tickler snacks on a pear while torturing his victims. Played for BlackComedy when the Hound kills several Frey soldiers, then helps himself to their meal.

* In an early episode of ''Series/BabylonFive'', [[NumberTwo Lieutenant Commander Ivanova]] finds [[DaChief Micheal Garibaldi]] at a restaurant "eating like a man starved" after he had found a missing passenger transport that had been destroyed by [[SpacePirates Raiders]]. [[DiscussedTrope He explains]] that seeing death makes him hungry, he figures that it is his way of reminding himiself that he is still alive. Given [[TheAlcoholic other details we know of Garibaldi]], it's also possible that he gorges himself on food as an [[AddictionDisplacement alternative]] to [[INeedAFreakingDrink falling back into the bottle.]]

* One of the [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Jagermonsters]] in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' gets hungy ''[[{{Squick}} while traipsing through a sewer.]]''

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': When the boys visit a farm and see all the baby cows in constricitive pens because they're destined to become veal, everyone is {{Squicked}} except Cartman, who says they all look delicious.

* In the first season of ''{{Slayers}}'', Dilgear's eulogy for a fallen fishman is marred by the rest of his men eating the body. When he finishes the eulogy he gets upset because they didn't leave any for him.

* ''{{Psych}}'': An ad for this show shows Shawn snacking on a donut that he took from the corpse at the crime scene he's investigating. It ends with him licking something red off his finger and nonchalantly saying "That wasn't a jelly donut."

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* All video games whose characters possess HyperactiveMetabolism. After (or while) butchering their way through hundreds of {{Mooks}}, our hero noms a [[VideoGame/BioShock Pep Bar]] and some [[VideoGame/FinalFight garbage-can turkey]] and washes it down with some [[VideoGame/{{Fallout}} Nuka Cola]].
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* All video games whose characters possess HyperactiveMetabolism. After (or while) butchering their way through hundreds of {{Mooks}}, our hero noms a [[Franchise/BioShock Pep Bar]] and some [[VideoGame/FinalFight garbage-can turkey]] and washes it down with some [[VideoGame/{{Fallout}} Nuka Cola]].