History Main / LiteralManeater

* ''Film/DudeWheresMyCar'': Super Hot Giant Alien eats Tommy in one gulp.

* A rare male example in ''Manga/{{Parasyte}}'' with parasite Hideo Shimada, who hunts by transforming his face into a {{Bishonen}} appearance and going out to pick up female company... who he then devours.
* Solution Epsilon, one of the [[NinjaMaid Pleiades combat maids]] at Ainz's service in ''Literature/{{Overlord2012}}'', is actually a shoggoth, a normally shapeless BlobMonster that prefers the form of a [[SlimeGirl beautiful woman]]. She [[HoneyTrap exploits her charms to their fullest extent]], and men who make the mistake of wishing to get "[[DoubleEntendre inside of her]]" tend to get [[EatenAlive much more than they bargained for]].

* The Filipino merfolk can be this way, as many are ApparentlyHumanMerfolk who lure humans into the water to eat them [[HumanSacrifice or sacrifice them.]]

* “Cannibal” by {{Music/Tally Hall}} uses this trope as a metaphor for abusive relationships.

* ''Webcomic/RedGreenBlue'': In [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/redgreenblue/dungeon-bully/viewer?title_no=587922&episode_no=271 this strip]], an adventurer is warned that the chest he’s about to open is [[ChestMonster a mimic]] by a beautiful woman chained to the wall. He rushes over to free her, but unfortunately for him, the woman is also a mimic and promptly eats him.

* ''Film/TrickOrTreat'': [[spoiler:The bunch of women who show up, seemingly cruising around looking for dates turn out to be a pack of werewolves who use their looks to seduce guys -- or girls, they're not picky -- into following them into places where the werewolves can assume their true forms and devour them. As their latest victims find out in their focus-story.]]

* ''Webcomic/RedGreenBlue'': A Dungeons and Dragons version of the trope, found [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/redgreenblue/dungeon-bully/viewer?title_no=587922&episode_no=271 here]]

* This is literally the core foundation of the dominant form of "vore" fetishism in online media; vorarephillia is a sexual fetish for the consumption of living prey, and the primary form of vore fetish art consists of a beautiful woman who plays on their appearance to attract suitors, who end up being eaten involuntarily as part of the sexual act. Such cannibalistic lovemaking doesn't necessarily have to be fatal, as the common depiction involves the "prey" being SwallowedWhole without dying (known as "soft vore") and it is a purely fantastical form of fetishism, but the majority of more serious works do result in the prey's death, usually from being digested alive.

* This is literally the core foundation of the dominant form of "vore" fetishism in online media; voraphillia is a sexual fetish for the consumption of living prey, and the primary form of vore fetish art consists of a beautiful woman who plays on their appearance to attract suitors, who end up being eaten involuntarily as part of the sexual act. Such cannibalistic lovemaking doesn't necessarily have to be fatal, as the common depiction involves the "prey" being SwallowedWhole without dying (known as "soft vore") and it is a purely fantastical form of fetishism, but the majority of more serious works do result in the prey's death, usually from being digested alive.

%%* ''Film/TrickOrTreat'': The [[spoiler: female werewolf pack]], who transform into their true forms by peeling off their human skins.

Sub-trope of ToServeMan, ImAHumanitarian, ConsumingPassion, LuringInPrey, OutWithABang, and PsychosexualHorror. Despite the AnimalMotif involved, not inherently related to the BlackWidow trope, although a Literal Maneater who legally weds her victims before consuming them would be an example of both. Compare SuccubiAndIncubi, who have sometimes been portrayed as seducing people before eating them. The MantisMatingMeal is an insect equivalent.

* Solution Epsilon, one of the [[NinjaMaid Pleiades combat maids]] at Ainz's service in ''Literature/{{Overlord}}'', is actually a shoggoth, a normally shapeless BlobMonster that prefers the form of a [[SlimeGirl beautiful woman]]. She [[HoneyTrap exploits her charms to their fullest extent]], and men who make the mistake of wishing to get "[[DoubleEntendre inside of her]]" tend to get [[EatenAlive much more than they bargained for]].

* Solution Epsilon, one of the [[NinjaMaid Pleiades combat maids]] at Ainz's service in ''{{LightNovel/Overlord}}'', is actually a shoggoth, a normally shapeless BlobMonster that prefers the form of a [[SlimeGirl beautiful woman]]. She [[HoneyTrap exploits her charms to their fullest extent]], and men who make the mistake of wishing to get "[[DoubleEntendre inside of her]]" tend to get [[EatenAlive much more than they bargained for]].

* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': [[Characters/SCPFoundationSCPs001To999 SCP-953]] is an evil [[AsianFoxSpirit Korean kumiho]] who makes use of her shapeshifting and seduction abilities to lure in (usually male) humans to their doom, preferring to take their hearts and livers.

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* The females of some species of firefly imitate the flashes of females of different species in order to lure males of that species to them. Once the male gets close enough, the female then proceeds to eat him.
* The scientific term for this is sexual cannibalism, in which the female devours the male either before or during the act of mating. So far, it has only been observed in insect and arachnid species; the redback and black widow spiders are so named for this behavior (and gave the BlackWidow trope [[TropeNamer its name]]), though it also shows up in praying mantis species. It's also {{gender inverted|Trope}} in one species of wolf spider, where it's the ''male'' that eats the ''female''. Even more bizarrely, the male redback spider at least doesn't even mind getting eaten, and sometimes even "helps" by crawling into the female's mouth. Talk about [[FaceDeathWithDignity Facing Death With Dignity]].
* The infamous American SerialKiller Jeffrey Dahmer was a gay example, [[InvitedAsDinner luring male victims into his home under sexual pretenses before murdering and partially consuming them]].
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* Played for laughs in one of the gag comics in Marvel's ''ComicBook/WhatIf Vol. 1 #34''; using the suggestion "What if ComicBook/SpiderMan had married the ComicBook/BlackWidow?" as its basis, it consists of a single panel with Black Widow picking her teeth with a bone and emitting a BurpOfFinality, whilst Spider-man's emptied costume and a few scattered human bones makes his fate evident. Ironically, this story would be obliquely referred to in ''another'' gag comic, this time depicting Spidey marrying ComicBook/SpiderWoman... who actually would have made more sense in this role than Black Widow, as at the time she had a backstory of being a spider turned into a human by the High Evolutionary.

* In ''Literature/AmericanGods'', Bilquis the Queen of Sheba is a literal ''and'' figurative example. She acts as a prostitute to have sex with people... Who she subsequently [[VaginaDentata devours with her own vagina]] as her form of HumanSacrifice to keep some power.

* In one episode of ''Series/{{Grimm}}'', the MonsterOfTheWeek is a spider Wesen called a Spinnetod, who is involuntarily compelled to periodically suck the guts out of men to maintain her youthful appearance. Interestingly, she maintains a monogamous relationship with a male member of her species and moonlights as a serial killer mostly to stave off her urge to kill her husband in the literal BlackWidow fashion that comes natural to them. Some female Spinnetods abstain from feeding altogether, but it takes great self-control and making their peace with the RapidAging that will inevitably result.

Sub-trope of ToServeMan, ImAHumanitarian, ConsumingPassion, LuringInPrey, and OutWithABang. Despite the AnimalMotif involved, not inherently related to the BlackWidow trope, although a Literal Maneater who legally weds her victims before consuming them would be an example of both. Compare SuccubiAndIncubi, who have sometimes been portrayed as seducing people before eating them. The MantisMatingMeal is an insect equivalent.

* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': [[Characters/SCPFoundationSCP953 SCP-953]] is an evil [[AsianFoxSpirit Korean kumiho]] who makes use of her shapeshifting and seduction abilities to lure in (usually male) humans to their doom, preferring to take their hearts and livers.

Alice and Bob meet up at a bar. Alice is dressed very provocatively and is acting rather seductively towards Bob, which Bob is obviously enjoying. Things start to heat up between the two and they exit the bar and slip out to somewhere nearby that's dark and quiet. Things start getting intimate. Alice seems ReadyForLoveMaking, and Bob is ready to comply but suddenly things take a horrible turn for Bob. Alice's [[EatTheCamera mouth gets inhumanly wide]] as she seizes Bob before he can run away. Bob lets out a final scream as she eats him whole and alive.

* In the ''Literature/{{Siren}}'' trilogy, sirens get men to fall in love with them, then drag their victims out to sea and drown them.