History Main / LostFoodGrievance

* In the original ''Film/HomeAlone'' this sparks the fight between Kevin and his older brother Buzz when the latter taunts the former about having eaten the last slice of cheese pizza before Kevin even got any.

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* In episode 9 of ''Machinima/TheGModIdiotBox'', Derrick bothers Alex while he's trying to enjoy a snack in peace. When Derrick knocks it out of Alex's hand and into the water. Alex's reaction is to ''[[DisproportionateRetribution incinerate the entire planet in rage]]''.

A specific form of BerserkButton and/or MinorInjuryOverreaction.

This is understandable for children, who can [[SweetTooth treat sweets very importantly]], [[PickyEater and not much else]] (see EvilIsPetty for literally taking candy from children). It's also understandable when characters lacking an ImprobableFoodBudget seeing their hard-bought meal going to waste might be a bit peeved, and also understandable if they are poor and lose the only PovertyFood to fill their stomachs. A SupremeChef quite naturally wouldn't be pleased with seeing their work destroyed, and any reasonable person could react this way when they're preparing to dine on that chef's ImpossiblyDeliciousFood. And this is completely understandable when enjoying some ComfortFood, or PostStressOvereating is involved, since this happening [[RantInducingSlight atop other stresses can only end badly]]. Then there's the whole matter of food [[PowerUpFood offering some]] [[WizardNeedsFoodBadly sort of]] [[HyperactiveMetabolism tactical advantage]]. It's when grown adults have a similar reaction to normal food they aren't responsible for that the trope might come into effect.

** Season 7 episode "ComicBook/WallyWest vs. [[ComicBooks/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog Archie Sonic]]": Wally and Sonic get into a footrace, which turns ugly after Sonic mockingly offers a bite of his [[TrademarkFavoriteFood chili dog]] to Wally, who eats the whole thing.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7id7qCbw1c&t=57s In an episode]] of ''[[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel Super Heroes]]: What The--?!'' focusing on ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'s pop culture-themed nightmares, he's subjected to [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment the torture]] of having to watch a fully-prepared taco be crushed, broken apart and ripped to shreds.

** In “No Stealing, Roys Bedoys!”, Loys cries when Roys steals his chocolate bar. Justified in that Loys is only two. ** In “It’s a Blackout, Roys Bedoys!”, Loys cries at the prospect of ice cream melting.

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* In the ''Anime/AdventuresOfTheLittleKoala'' episode "The Mysterious Moa Bird", Laura helps out in the kitchen and actually makes her own eucalyptus cakes. Nobody gets to try any, however; the cakes are destroyed when Roobear crashes his hot air balloon into the house. Laura is very upset over her wrecked cakes.
* The easiest way to anger the normally peppy Charmy from ''Manga/BlackClover'' is to try to steal her meal or waste food, manifesting her giant ram to attack enemies who do so. The Eye of the Midnight Sun ruining her vegetable garden causes her to angrily rally the Black Bulls to make them pay.
* At the start of the "Greenback Jane" arc from ''Manga/BlackLagoon'', Mr. Elvis fires into the Rip-Off Church, against the advice of his friend Lobos who knows Roanapur, which is enough to piss off [[ChurchMilitant Eda]] already, but the reason Revy gets involved, other than being pissed off at being shot at? His bullet went right through her shot of whiskey. It does ''not'' end well for Mr. Elvis, Lobos, or their buddies.
* In the ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' episode "Heavy Metal Queen", Spike has a hangover and is making [[HideousHangoverCure a drink called a Prairie Oyster to remedy it]]. The last ingredient, a raw egg, is all that's needed. But it's knocked into his lap due to a fight in the bar he was in. Spike stares at it solemnly before deciding to join in on the fight, and utterly [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomps]] those responsible.
* Light Yagami in ''Manga/DeathNote'' is able to manipulate Ryuk into helping with his plans for once by denying him apples, and any time he's had to go without them has been treated the same as some form of withdrawal. This is one of the few times a shinigami has a direct effect on the story.
* In the ''[[Anime/DevilMayCryTheAnimatedSeries Devil May Cry]]'' anime, Morrison is able to coax Dante into doing a job after he convinces Dante's favorite pizza place to stop delivering to him until he can pay his tab. Dante gets especially frustrated at Patty, not over her re-decoration of his shop, but over her eating his strawberry sundae.
* In ''Manga/DragonBall'', Goku and Yajirobe get into a fight because Goku had eaten a fish Yajirobe had left over a fire. Well, that's why Yajirobe started the fight. Goku did it because he thought Yajirobe was working with Piccolo, the demon that killed Krillin.
* From ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':
** All the Buu forms love their sweets, but Super Buu takes this UpToEleven after he is trapped in the Time Chamber by Piccolo. He asked if he would have sweets and Piccolo smugly tells him no, cue him throwing a tantrum that breaks dimensions.
** It gets one-upped by Beerus in ''Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods'', who throws a temper tantrum after he misses out on a chance to eat some pudding. And by temper tantrum, we mean that he would've destroyed the Earth had Goku not stopped him. This, despite the fact that it would've been beyond trivial to make another batch for him if he had just stayed calm and shown a little patience.
* Shizuo Heiwajima's first [[HairTriggerTemper violent mood swing]] in ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' came from his brother Kasuka stealing a pudding with his name on it from the fridge when they were kids (which Shizuo broke a bone attempting to toss at him).
* Pictured above: Erza Scarlet in ''Manga/FairyTail'' takes her cake very seriously, and at one point beats on everyone around her after the slice she was eating gets knocked onto the floor, particularly Elfman for accidentally stepping on it only a moment later.
* In ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'', the introduction of the titular character was displayed like this when his parfait was destroyed due to a fight in the bar he was in. He explains that his doctor told him he was close to gaining diabetes and had to cut back on the sweets. So he limited himself to a parfait a week. As one can imagine, he's not pleased that he wasn't able to finish it.
* In ''Anime/GundamBuildFighters'', Reiji and Aila get into a fight over a meat bun and accidentally throw it into a nearby river in the ensuing struggle. Naturally, they start yelling at each other, marking the official start of their BelligerentSexualTension, aptly christened via MemeticMutation as "[[FanNickname/{{Gundam}} The Meatbun Chronicles]]."
* In the eighth episode of ''Anime/KamisamaMinaraiHimitsuNoCocotama'', Mogutan doesn't lift a finger to help the other Cocotamas scare off Kokoro's cat Amanda and instead focuses on stuffing his face with candy. It isn't until Amanda crushes one of the pieces of candy he was going to eat with her paw that he actually does anything to help.
* ''Anime/KiraKiraHappyHirakeCocotama'' has a BigEater named Chako as one of the characters, who flies into a rage whenever food she wanted to eat gets consumed by someone else.
* ''Manga/KOn'' has multiple examples, but the most extreme ones come from Episode 14 of the 2nd season, where Yui and Mio get the strawberries stolen off their cake. In Yui's case, she whines for the rest of the episode about how the strawberry represents the cake's crown, or its very heart and soul, while Mio actually starts to cry, as if heartbroken.
* ''Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure'': Mirai cries when her pancakes get eaten. But when she finds out that Chikurun ate them, she enchants the curtains to trap him.
* Elma went full dragon form in ''[[Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Elma's OL Diary]]'' when a burglar accidentally stepped on a bag of chestnuts she had bought and would have murdered him if Kobayashi hadn't come by with some Taiyaki.
* Manga/{{Naruto}} is enraged after finding out that an impostor stole his ramen, triggering the Kyuubi's chakra. Then we see one-thousand Kage Bunshin.
** A good way to piss Chouji off is by eating the last potato chip.
* Eishun Konoe in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', upon the Ala Rubra being attacked by Rakan, makes a point to fight him first... after Rakan's massive, [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks thrown sword]] destroys the [[CampCook picnic they were having]] and spills the nabe he made.
-->"Anyone who wastes my food... '''''[[BerserkButton I slice]]'''''."
* Mio from ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'' angrily attacks her sister after she replaces the strawberry on her cake with a Shogi piece. This was after she found her sister had also messed with the Mont Blanc she was looking forward to.
* Plenty of these in ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' are caused when Doremi misses out on eating steak.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** A major BerserkButton for Sanji. If you waste food in front of him, be prepared to get hurt. [[spoiler: Because as a child, he almost starved to death.]]
** Carrot is so obsessed with the vegetable she is named after, she once savagely attacked Luffy for taking one of hers.
** For a rare non-comedic and enforced example from the Punk Hazard arc, [[spoiler:the kidnapped children go on an UnstoppableRage for more candy as a result of the withdrawal symptoms from the [=NHC10=] drug they were slipped]].
** Probably the worst case is Charlotte "Big Mom" Linlin, one of the Four Emperors. She has such a SweetTooth that islands under her "protection" must pay her back in tons of candy. If they can't, she'll have that country destroyed. She's been known to go on destructive rampages if a certain sweet she's craving isn't immediately provided. When the Straw Hats destroy the wedding cake for one of her tea parties, she begins killing her chefs when they tell her that they can't bake a new one. [[spoiler:Ironically, this trope actually protects her life for a few moments. The only time her MadeOfIron body becomes weak is when a photo of her LivingEmotionalCrutch is damaged, but when the Straw Hats break it, she's so furious over the cake that her mind locks up because she doesn't know what she's more upset about.]]
* Honey in ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' spends an episode without cake due to the cavities eating so many has caused him. He ends up taking it out on the club and causing a rare argument with Takashi (they make up in the end). In Renge's words, life for Honey without cake is "a living hell."
* Pikachu in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' spends a whole scene crying over the loss of a ketchup bottle it was licking from.
** Charizard flips out when Team Rocket destroys the table full of food he is eyeing.
** May has made reservations at a restaurant and was ''ticked'' when Team Rocket happens to steal all the food, ruining Dawn's, er, perception of her.
* Kyouko from ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' tends to react very badly to people wasting their food. Much like Sanji, this is soon revealed to be a consequence of a traumatically hungry childhood.
-->"Don't waste food. I'll kill you."
* ''Manga/SetonAcademyJoinThePack'': The cooking club makes panda dumplings to welcome the panda idol to their school. However, when a disguised Mei-Mei sneaks in and eats all the dumplings, [[BewareTheNiceOnes Yukari]] picks up a kitchen counter with the intent of crushing her with it.
** And when Mei-Mei demands more, Jin (between her attitude and his hate for animals) refuses and tosses her out during her tantrum. Mei-Mei then decides to get her dumplings by bribing the female club members to pick panda dumplings as their next dish.
* The first episode of ''[[LightNovel/{{Slayers}} Slayers NEXT]]'' starts off with Lina and Gourry having a massive and lovely-looking lunch... which is quickly cut short by a fight breaking out and a thug crashing into their table. Lina is completely devastated and responds by blasting the thugs outside so she could personally beat them up with her own fists.
* In ''Anime/SonicX'', the teacher absently picks up a burger belonging to a police officer. Said officer pursues him beyond the rest of the episode, threatening to [[FelonyMisdemeanor call out the SWAT team]].
* A variation in ''Anime/SSSSGridman'': Akane tries to give Yuta a "special dog"--basically a shrink-wrapped sandwich with a hot dog in it--but a trio of girls accidentally tosses a volleyball into it, partly squishing it. After an [[LeaveTheCameraRunning extremely long awkward pause]], they apologise profusely; Yuta isn't bothered by the smashed sandwich and eats it anyway. Akane, however, uses her RealityWarper powers later that day to [[DisproportionateRetribution rewrite history such that all three girls died years ago]].
* In ''Manga/SteppingOnRoses'', the heroine Sumi is rendered gobsmacked when her husband Sōichirō throws the "peasant" food she cooked away, then leaving his breakfast half eaten. Of course, since Sumi grew up dirt poor with barely enough food for herself, let alone her brothers and sisters, this attitude is completely understandable.
* Vash in ''Manga/{{Trigun}}: Badlands Rumble'' complains quite loudly when a number of bandits smash his doughnut into crumbs.
-->"That is the meanest thing anyone's ever done to me! Why do you wanna ruin other people's food?! I can't eat a pile of smashed up crumbs!"
** As well as the original series, you waste or step on perfectly good pudding. Milly will ''drop you'' where you stand.
** It should be noted that the characters live in an environment of extreme scarcity, so this kind of attitude is reasonable, but in their case, it's still treated as excessive and humorous.
* In one story in ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'', Ataru and Lum end up spending a quiet evening at home with Ataru's parents gone. Lum even makes a special dinner for him. Unfortunately, their dinner and their night get interrupted by angry/jealous boys from their school who invade Ataru's house. In the process, they wreck Lum's dinner for Ataru - which pisses her off big time.
* In an extra gag page of ''Manga/VampireKnight'', Yuuki can be seen punching Zero when she believes he ate the pudding she was saving (it was actually Headmaster Cross who ate it).
* In ''Manga/TheWallflower'''s {{Valentines Day Episode|s}}, Sunako had spent the episode fiercely craving the day's chocolate while her {{Bishonen}} room-mates had been avoiding their fangirls all school-day. This culminates in her finally making her own decadent, layered and exceedingly-tall chocolate cake at home while the rest of them are starving and exhausted. Soon after she gets a single bite, they've already devoured most of it.
-->"But that Valentine's chocolate was supposed to be for me..."
* In ''Anime/UltimateMuscle'', our cowardly hero Mantarou is unwillingly shipped off to Earth and would rather not fight the [=dMp=] thug who accosts him and Meat. Then the thug makes the mistake of trashing the boxed lunch Mantarou's mom packed, and [[BewareTheSillyOnes Mantarou wipes the floor with the guy]].
* ''Anime/YokaiWatch'' has a number of sketches involving Nate being [[GrandTheftMe inspirited by a Yokai named "Gourmand"]] at lunchtime. He obsesses over any and everything he eats, giving flowery and ridiculous descriptions of each bite or the food in general, but he never gets to finish it. He usually ends up dropping it, losing it to someone else or ruining it. This is his DespairEventHorizon. During his flowery rants, he'll talk about how people don't know how to properly enjoy whatever it is they're eating that day.
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* Occurs in ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' when Hughie talks to The Female from her bedside while she's in a coma and tries to take one of her [[TrademarkFavoriteFood chocolate limes]]. She then ''immediately'' wakes up and breaks his arm.
** Later on a young boy steals her ice cream while she's disguised as a child, and [[FantasySequence she imagines]] [[AxCrazy killing him and everyone else in attendance]] and ruling the ashes on [[ThroneMadeOfX a throne made from their skulls]]. [[MoralityPet Frenchie stops her from acting on it]], so she settles for [[RevengeIsADishBestServed pissing into her lost treat from above while the kid looks away]].
* ''ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet'': Galactus gets involved because Thanos sent out an energy wave that destroyed (among many other things) a planet that Galactus was about to consume. This angered the Planet Eater enough for him to get a bunch of other Cosmic Tier entities and come back looking for revenge.

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* ''Series/ThirtyRock'': One day a year the Teamsters give everyone these awesome sandwiches from a deli they know about but won't tell anyone else where it is. Liz goes into a blinding rage when her sandwich is stolen.
-->'''Liz''': ''(to Kenneth)'' I don't know how, but you're going to get me another sandwich. Or I'm going to cut your face up so bad, you'll have a chin. ''(turns to everyone)'' You'll all have chins!
* Sadly, one reason why dogs on ''Series/AnimalPlanetHeroes'' programs can end up being euthanized is if they react violently to a rubber hand held near their food as they're eating, demonstrating that they're too aggressive to be adoptable.
* In a Season One episode of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', Terry, Gina, and Amy go on a diet which prescribes them very little portions of food. Irritable from hunger already, the fire-breathing dragon is unleashed when Amy's almond is stepped on.
--> '''Amy:''' Sorry?! You bumbling son of a bitch! You just ruined my life! I hope you get hit by a truck and a dog takes a dump on your FACE! I HOPE YOU DROWN IN A TUB! I HOPE YOU HAVE ANEURYSM AFTER ANEURYSM AFTER ANEURYSM!
* One episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'' has the eponymous character highly irritated that his leftovers are disappearing from his fridge, so much so that he sets a booby trap in the fridge consisting of a dye-pack such as those used by banks to thwart robberies. His teen daughter was not amused when she ended up looking like a smurf.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Minisode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32HVBSNightAndTheDoctor "Good Night"]] features a PlayedForDrama version, when Amy finds out that the worst day of her life was, apparently, the day when she dropped an ice cream she was going to eat. The Doctor takes her back to buy herself a new one.
-->'''Amy:''' Hang on. Did I... did I drop an ice cream? That CAN'T be my saddest memory.\\
'''The Doctor:''' Remembering ice cream is always sad.
* One episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' features an incident in which Ross' sandwich (specially made by Monica out of Thanksgiving leftovers) is eaten by one of his coworkers. Ross' reaction is enough to convince his boss that he has "rage issues." His '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOtNMp9GSoM "MY SANDWICH?!"]]''' scream became one of the series' most famous moments.
** In another episode, Joey is on a date, a date that ends poorly when she steals a few french fries from his plate.
--->"JOEY DOESN'T SHARE FOOD!"
* To broaden the trope, in the final season of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' the gang plan to toast [[spoiler: Barney and Robin's wedding]] with a bottle of well-aged Glen [=McKenna=], a highly-regarded, very expensive scotch described [[OneOfTheBoys by Robin]] as old enough to buy its own scotch. Unfortunately for them, the bottle and their replacements get broken before anyone could drink it. Their final bottle is accidentally broken by the JerkAss lead singer of the wedding band and Ted is so angry he punches the guy in the face. The Mother, who plays bass in the band, anonymously buys Ted a glass of an even older vintage as a thank you for putting the singer in his place.
* Nevel on ''Series/{{ICarly}}'' once yelled at a little girl for accidentally knocking over a jar of pickles he was going to buy at the supermarket. This was caught on video and spread viral, making him a laughingstock.
* In the ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' episode "The Double Blind Job", two mooks are chasing a young woman, who collides with Hardison, who collides with Eliot behind him, spilling Eliot's coffee.
--> '''Mook''': FBI, sir. That young lady's in our custody!\\
'''Hardison''': (laughs) Oh, see, you made two mistakes, brah. First, you flashed that fake-assed FBI badge at me. Second, you spilled ''' ''[[HairTriggerTemper his]]'' ''' coffee. (nods to Eliot, who has coffee down his shirt. Cue DisproportionateRetribution CurbStompBattle)
* In the ''Series/Lucifer2016'' episode "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S02E08TripToStabbyTown Trip to Stabby Town]]", Dan is upset that someone (namely Lucifer) keeps eating his clearly labeled pudding. The influence of Azrael's Blade, which compels people to kill over the slightest grievance, nearly drives Dan to stab Lucifer to death over said labeled pudding.
* A variant occurs in the ''Series/{{MASH}}'' episode "Adam's Ribs". Hawkeye goes out of his way to order and have delivered to the 4077th (which is in Korea, remember, in the middle of a war zone) 40 pounds of ribs (plus sauce) from a restaurant called Adam's Ribs in Chicago, Illinois. And why did he go to such trouble? Because he was sick of army food and Adam's Ribs was the best food he could think of. At the end of the episode, the ribs are delivered and cooked and Hawkeye settles down to dig in... [[spoiler:just in time for choppers and ambulances full of wounded people to arrive]]. Col. Blake and Trapper have to drag him out of the mess tent as he protests.
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': During the time travel story arc, Pearl and Observer discover that Professor Bobo has become a celebrity in ancient Rome. Observer fears that Bobo's meddling with history could have dire effects on the timeline, but Pearl doesn't care. Observer convinces her to care by pointing out that, in the altered timeline, the Nabisco company may never come into being, thus "No more Chicken In A Biskit":
-->'''Pearl:''' ''"Bobo is messing with '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis my. Favorite. SNACK CRACKER?!]]'''"''
** Also, in the episode ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E12HerculesAndTheCaptiveWomen Hercules and the Captive Women]]'', when a scene is shown with a couple of people running back and forth on the deck of a ship, Joel and the bots improvise an argument about a missing dinner roll and fruit cup.
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': [[TheCommandments Gibbs Rule #23:]] [[MustHaveCaffeine Never mess with a Marine's coffee, if you want to live.]]
** Gibbs also gets annoyed with Vance over a ruined danish. His DeathGlare ensures that Vance will one day pay him back for it (which he does).
* ''Series/NewTricks'': When somebody steals a sausage roll from Gerry's desk, he becomes obsessed with finding the thief.
* Subverted twice over on an episode of ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' after Maya eats a birthday cake that Kendrix makes for Damon's birthday. Most viewers would at first consider Maya an UngratefulBitch for doing that ''and'' getting angry when Kendrix blows her top... Until Maya realizes what it was for. (A case of PoorCommunicationKills; Mirinoians don't celebrate birthdays.)
* In the ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' episode "The Understudy," [[ProneToTears Jerry's girlfriend]] cries after dropping a hot dog she was eating.
** George's subplot in "The Dealership" has him going to ridiculous lengths to prove that a car dealership employee ate his Twix bar, which had been stuck in the vending machine after he paid for it.
--->'''George:''' All I want is my 75 cents back, an apology, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and for him to be fired]].
* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': Harmony steals John's chocolate and frames Rodney.
* On the "Trouble With Tribbles" episode of ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'', Kirk is not the least bit happy to find tribbles in his coffee and chicken sandwich. (Of course, he could simply be upset because of the ''bigger'' problem, that the tribbles are in the food dispensers - along with everything else - and causing ''everybody'' problems.)
* In ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'', one of Chavo's major [[BerserkButton Berserk Buttons]] is seeing food getting wasted or carelessly thrown away, which is [[JustifiedTrope understandable]] because, as a poor kid with no money, Chavo doesn't have an easy access to food and drink as other people in the Vecindad.
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* In ''VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown'', Lanza learns [[spoiler:General Clemens was fed false intel by one of [[BigBad Captain Torres']] men and hired Mimic Squadron to assassinate [[PlayerCharacter Trigger]], just because he overshadows all Osean forces with his skills]]. His reaction is to complain that his cola got spilled during the resulting scuffle.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Deadpool}}'', Cable is able to convince Deadpool to battle Mister Sinister by pointing out that Sinister's success also means the destruction of his favorite taco restaurant. This shows the potential overlap with FoodAsBribe.
* In ''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories'', Etna has gone rogue from Laharl's court, and considers him a deadly enemy, even fantasizing about murdering him over and over again. The reason? He ''stole her pudding!''
* In ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryTropicalFreeze'', we first see [[BearsAreBadNews Bashmaster]] lounging on an ice floe floating in a pool of juice while licking a popsicle. Franchise/DonkeyKong falls onto the platform, knocking the popsicle out of Bashmaster's hand and into the juice, where it is promptly eaten by piranhas. Bashmaster angrily looks at DK, who smiles sheepishly. Cue BossBattle.
** As for Donkey Kong himself, he's largely presented as being more laid back than his [[LegacyCharacter predecessor]], but the theft of his bananas upsets him like nothing else. That said, it's not the loss of ''one'' banana that typically sets him off so much as the loss of his clan's ''entire food supply''.
* In ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' and ''VideoGame/WarriorsOrochi 3'', one of Sima Zhao's conquest stages has him being attacked by his brother Sima Shi because he ate one his meat buns.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': An early Rogue's Guild quest ends with V'kebbe discovering the guildmaster, Jacke Swallow, stole her sandwich earlier. Since no one is above "the Code" that the Rogues Guild strictly enforces, V'kebbe takes relish in punishing Jacke for stealing from a fellow Rogue by [[UnwillingSuspension dangling him from a rope outside the guild hall]].
* ''[[VideoGame/HalfLife2 Half-Life 2: Episode 2]]'': After you test the Magnusson Device, its inventor, Dr. Magnusson, tells you if you successfully defend the base, he'll forgive you for destroying his casserole in Black Mesa, over ''twenty years ago''. This is a reference to the start of the [[VideoGame/HalfLife first game]], where you could turn on a microwave and explosively destroy its contents; turns out, the casserole belonged to him.
* This is how the plot of ''VideoGame/KirbySqueakSquad'' begins, with someone stealing a strawberry shortcake just as Kirby was about to eat it. Getting it back is practically Kirby's entire motive for the entire game.
** This is also basically the original Japanese plot of ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand'' (and by extension the Spring Breeze mode in ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'') - Kirby going after King Dedede because he stole everyone's food. Kirby is so obsessed with food that there are fandom jokes about Kirby destroying random warlords and [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] because ''someone'' ruined his lunch that day and he will not stop until the culprit gets [[JustForPun their just desserts.]]
* ''VideoGame/LEGONinjagoShadowOfRonin'': In [[spoiler:Chen's Palace]], one of Ronin's guards won't open a door the ninjas need to get through until he receives his food order, so the ninjas have to make it for him. Give him the wrong order and he'll put it in the trash, which upsets Cole because he wanted to eat it if the guard didn't want it. A Gold Brick is even earned for doing this.
* In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'', Chef Soulfflé is introduced cooking a very smoky fish meal in a pan. Luigi vacuums up the smoke so he can see through the kitchen; a startled Chef Soulfflé accidentally drops the fish from the pan and angrily attacks Luigi in response.
* ''VideoGame/Persona4'': Yukiko, twice:
** At your meetup after you rescue her from the TV World, she brings fried tofu on ramen for her lunch. She offers some to both the PlayerCharacter and Yosuke, and after taking a bite, the two of them rapidly eat the whole thing. [[ButThouMust (The player themselves have no say in this.)]] She's understandably ticked off for the rest of the scene.
** When the group is eating at a ramen shop together, and Teddie discreetly nabs her unfinished bowl. He was left unable to move after having 10 of them along with hers, and she said something about leaving the bear behind.
* In ''VideoGame/PlayStationAllStarsBattleRoyale'', [[VideoGame/TwistedMetal Sweet Tooth]] is spending a scene admiring the strawberry ice cream cone he'd just prepared, even going so far as to carve a smiley face into the "round ball of heaven." His rivalry battle begins after [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Kratos]] knocks the cone to the ground [[JerkAss for no reason]] (incidentally turning the smiley face upside down).
-->You know, I worked real hard on that ice cream cone. ''REAL hard''. Dunno if you got any money in that skirt of yours... But one way or the other, [[PreAsskickingOneLiner you're paying for it]].
* In ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' on the Wii, Soda Popinski will occasionally get out a bottle and drink it to restore his health. However, you can knock it out of his hands before he has a chance. If you do, he'll launch a flurry of powerful uppercuts very quickly at you. Far worse is if you do the same thing to Doc Louis's chocolate bar during ''Doc Louis's Punch-Out!!'', which makes his attacks ''much'' faster (and he gets out another chocolate bar straight away that you can't knock away).
* A minor feud between [[Myth/GreekMythology Cerberus and Orthrus]] is caused when the former has his lunch stolen and thinks the latter did it in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney''. After a while of challenging each other, [[spoiler:it turns out an Oni stole Cerberus' lunch.]]
* In the intro to ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'', Sonic gasps and then looks dejected after the appearance of the Time Eater knocks his birthday chili dog into the air, then to the ground (which he has only managed to take one bite from). [[spoiler:Thanks to the plot involving {{time travel}}, by the end of the game, [[BrickJoke he gets it back]].]]
* In ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'', Okabe end up in a rather heated argument with Kurisu after he stole a pudding cup from the fridge clearly labeled with her name.
* The Heavy and Scout in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' have a sort of rivalry regarding the Heavy's sandvich, starting with the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geNMz0J9TEQ Meet The Scout]] video, where [[EnemyEatsYourLunch the Scout takes the sandvich after beating up a Heavy]]. It became a RunningGag, with a series of in-game achievements for The Scout being able to steal a Sandvich from a fallen Heavy, and for The Heavy being able to protect it via killing 50 Scouts (called "Don't Touch Sandvich"). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_prZ0JrbQrU When it comes to his sandwich]], "he's like a big, shaved bear that hates people."
* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by guards in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' who have clearly taken this complaint before.
-->''Let me guess: somebody stole your sweetroll...'
* In ''Videogame/{{Tekken}} 6'', Asuka and Lili's shared ending has Lili causing Asuka to skid to a stop on her bike, sending her bento into the air to splatter onto the ground. Asuka gets pissed at this, and then casually dismissing that she's {{late for school}}, they start to fight.
-->"[[[GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger Giving the pointer finger]]] You crossed the line... I'll show you what happens... ''[[SuddenlyShouting when you mess with people's food!]]''"
* This is the entire plot of ''VideoGame/TitanLunchRetaliation'': A Titan goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against [[{{Oculothorax}} Eyeball Monsters]], Flying Squid, Dragons, [[ShoutOut Flying]] [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Monkeys]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Wiener Dogs]] because a giant bird stole his lunch.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
** Hunson Abadeer is the Lord of Evil and a neglectful father, but according to the season two premiere "It Came From the Nightosphere" the moment that causes his daughter Marceline to give up on her relationship with him is when he ate her french fries. She even writes a song about their relationship and titles it, "Daddy, Why Did You Eat My Fries?". Unlike other examples of this trope, Marceline's grievance turns out to be very, ''very'' legitimate, as the episode "Memory of a Memory" shows those fries were scavenged in a post-apocalypse, meaning he stole food she needed to avoid starvation with.
** Played for laughs in "Heat Signature", when Lumpy Space Princess gets [[ComicalOverreacting melodramatically angry]] when Finn and Jake (who've been tricked into thinking they're vampires and can turn invisible) knock over the can of beans she was cooking.
--->'''LSP:''' [[SlowNo Noooooo!]] Mah ''beeeaaaaaans!''
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' has the trio visiting Dave's parents, who live on a farm, and ends up saving their farm. The cartoon concludes with everyone having breakfast and a chicken eating Theodore's breakfast. The chicken eating up all of Theodore's food leads to an EverybodyLaughsEnding...for everyone except poor Theodore.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Francine gets a job at the CIA, which Stan is uncomfortable with. As a ploy to get her fired, he tries to frame her by taking Deputy Director Bullock's (voiced by Creator/PatrickStewart) sandwich, which he has very little patience for.
-->''Where. The hell. '''is my SANDWICH!?'''''
** There was also the episode where Steve eats a cookie that Roger wanted, and Roger decides to get back at Steve by trying to convince him that he's adopted. Even going as far as to ''burn all of Steve's baby pictures.''
* In the ''WesternAnimation/AngelaAnaconda'' episode "Snow Mercy," Gina gets pretty upset when the snowball war that Angela and Johnny are having causes a slice of pizza she was enjoying to get covered in snow. When Angela wonders why Gina was so upset, Gordie tells her about the "snowball incident." A few years ago, a young Gina saved up to buy herself a hot dog that she was old enough to eat whole instead of someone cutting it up for her. But just as she was about to take a bite, a random snowball knocked the hot dog out of her hands. Gina was so devastated by this that she would visit the spot where the hot dog fell for weeks and leave a bouquet of flowers.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', Iroh cries when the tea he warmed up gets smacked out of his hand by Zuko.
* In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'', a HumongousMecha shoots its WaveMotionGun, which [[TheBerserker Ra]][[LargeHam th]] dodges. But it blows up a Mr. Smoothie restaurant, which Ben loves. Cue [[OhCrap anxious glances]] at Rath from Kevin and Gwen.
-->'''[[NoIndoorVoice Rath]]:''' ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness (Quietly)]]'' You... You blew up Mr. Smoothie. [[UnstoppableRage RaaaaAAAAAAAGH!]] LEMME TELL YA SOMETHING, CUSTOM-MADE TECHODON ROBOT DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY TO DESTROY ME! [[PunctuatedPounding YOU CAN HURT ME! YOU CAN HURT THE THINGS I STAND FOR! YOU CAN EVEN HURT MY FEELINGS IF I HAD ANY!]] BUT ''NO ONE'', AND I MEAN '''''NO ONE''''', HURTS THE SMOOTHIE!
* On ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'', Teddy, Bob's one regular customer, is usually a nice, ineffectual person. However, if he's deprived of any of Bob's food for any reason - like if Bob stops serving fries because his fryer is broken, or he stops offering his Burger of the Day (which Teddy almost never has) - he has a full-on psychotic breakdown.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Detentionaire}}'': A RunningGag in the episode "Mastermind" is Lee eagerly preparing to take a bite out of a sloppy joe (since it's sloppy joe day in the cafeteria) only to be interrupted by something and drop it, much to his displeasure.
* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' took this to ludicrous extremes in one episode where it involved sandwich lover Jackie Khones trying to file a lawsuit against Madame Foster for eating a sandwich that he believed to be legally his on account of writing his name in mustard on said sandwich.
** An episode in the final season reveals that Jackie would’ve gone so far as to commit ''murder'' if anyone were to eat his sandwich.
* Happens in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' when Hermes loses his sloppy joes. Bender swiped it and used it for fish bait.
-->'''Hermes:''' [[LargeHam MY MANWICH!!!]]
** The episode "I, Roommate" has Professor Farnsworth ticked off when Fry has eaten an alien mummy in his possession which Fry had mistaken for jerky...because the Professor intended to eat the mummy!
* Gaz of ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', being [[EnfantTerrible the person]] [[DisproportionateRetribution she is]], does not take kindly ''at all'' to her brother stealing the last slice of pizza.
-->"Let it be known that from this day, until the end of the day, vengeance will be mine! Dib, you will not know the meaning of peace, for I shall rain misery down upon your PIZZA STEALING HEART!!!"
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction'': In "E. Nigma, Consulting Detective", it turns out the Joker kidnapped Batman as part of a plot to lure the Riddler to his doom, all because Nigma absentmindedly stole the Joker's donut one time while the two were in prison.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Quack Quack's BerserkButton is when someone messes with his TrademarkFavoriteFood, yogurt. In the episode "Let's Play Prince Charming", Mr. Cat decides to shoot a bunch of yogurt containers with a bazooka to destroy them and make Quack Quack angry, which proves to be a very bad idea and leads to him getting severely injured by the end of the episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/MaoMaoHeroesOfPureHeart:'' Badgerclops never takes the loss of any of his plentiful snacks well. He was perfectly alright with letting Adorabat have heavily armed PoweredArmor that she can barely control, for example, right until she accidentally blows up his burger.
-->'''Badgerclops:''' That's it, we have to get rid of that awful machine.
* In ''[[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013 Mickey Mouse]]'', this is used as a ChekhovsGag in the episode "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS1E16TappedOut Tapped Out]]". After Pete is sent flying right into Donald, he ruins the latter's nachos. Donald blows his stack and beats the crap out of Pete in a BigBallOfViolence, earning Mickey the victory.
* A brief gag in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Swarm of the Century". Background pony Lyra Heartstrings is about to eat a slice of pie, but the parasprites swarm in and eat it before she can get a bite. Lyra doesn't say anything, but she looks like she's on the verge of tears over this loss.
* A very odd version happens in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/LloydInSpace.'' Lloyd is talking to his friends about some of the bad dates his mom has had over the years, and one of them was an overly-sensitive alien named Weepned who cries over a dropped ice cream cone that wasn't even his.
-->'''Weepned:''' But it was somebody's!
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse''. Throughout the episode "Potty Mouth," everyone believes that they heard Lily say "Damn it," when actually she just wanted a doughnut. She does eventually get one in the end, only for Charles, the family dog, to steal it from her, which causes her to get so angry, that she lets out a real swear word.
** Lily gets hit with this again in the episode, "Any Given Sundae," where she was about to have her very first ice cream sundae. Just as she was about to taste it, a pigeon swoops down and knocks the sundae out of Lily's hands. And to make things worse, the family can't buy her another one because the ice cream shop closed early that day, which causes poor Lily to burst into tears. It does work out in the end though as the family heads to Flip's store and make up another sundae for Lily to enjoy.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': In "Sidetracked", Perry and a Canadian agent named Lyla Lolliberry exploit this against Dr. Doofenshmirtz by eating his fries and causing him to make a scene in order to foil his societal convention trap.
* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', where a little girl pushes Mojo, causing him to drop his ice cream cone. He's about to flip out until the melting ice cream helps him break his writer's block and come up with a new plan to fight the girls.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'', the episode's monster is a medieval dragon who tries to burn Scooby and Shaggy while they are trapped. They promptly pull out a pair of shish-kabobs, which they grill on the dragon's breath, and are about to eat them when Fred shows up and throws the kabobs at the dragon (which, of course, does nothing to hinder it). Shaggy complains, "What a waste of perfectly good kabobs!"
* Homer from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' frequently displays this behaviour towards donuts and beer:
** In one episode, he gives a BigNo and bursts into tears while watching a science experiment in which a donut is burned in order to show how many calories it contains.
** ''Really'' egregious in the episode in which Santa's Little Helper (the family dog) has to go to obedience school for chronic misbehavior. Marge is crestfallen when her mother's heirloom quilt is destroyed after being in her family for several generations. Homer is unconcerned, and very insincerely tries to comfort her...until he notices that Santa's Little Helper also ate his cookie, at which point he screams, cries, and finally decides that something needs to be done about the dog.
--->'''Homer:''' [[ThisCannotBe This is not happening!]] This is ''not'' happening!
** In a ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' segment, Bart uses a [[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 time-stopping watch]] to make donuts disappear one by one as Homer is about to eat them. Homer ends up trying to [[DrivenToSuicide stab himself in despair]], but Bart replaces the knife with a banana.
** Yet another ''Treehouse of Horror'' episode has Homer having an accident with TimeTravel and ends up creating an almost perfect future in which the family is rich, the kids are well-behaved and his hated sisters-in-law Patty and Selma are dead. He's prepared to accept this universe until he learns that no-one knows the word 'donut', which terrifies him enough to make him reactivate the time machine to fix the timeline (too late to see that in this universe, it rains donuts).
** Homer isn't the only character sensitive to lost food. In "Bart Gets Famous", we learn Kent Brockman really loves his danishes. When Bart swipes Brockman's Danish ([[InformedSpecies which resembles more of a cinnamon roll]]) to give it to Krusty, Brockman discovers his pastry missing and won't do the news report. (He is quickly replaced by Bumblebee Man, who actually does a better job than Kent himself - [[MoodWhiplash until his usual zany persona takes over]].)
--->'''Brockman:''' I don't read the news until I get my danish.
** In another episode, during a soccer riot, someone knocks over all the beer Barney was carrying, which makes him so angry, he lets out a loud yell before plowing through the crowd like a battering ram.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. At the beginning of "The Death of Eric Cartman", the boys are at Stan's house, waiting for Stan's mom to come home with their KFC. When it arrives, instead of helping with groceries, Cartman steals the crispy delicious skin off all the pieces in the bucket and goes home. The boys are devastated; Kenny actually begins sobbing from the trauma. As this is the most heinous thing Cartman's ever done, the other boys stop speaking to him, which leads him to believe he's dead and they can't see him anymore.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': In "Moving Bubble Bass", Bubble Bass gets Spongebob and Patrick to help him move with the offer of a free lunch. But when the boys learn Bubble Bass not only tricked them into doing all the heavy lifting but ate the food he was going to offer them, Patrick loses his cool.
-->'''Patrick:''' If my friend Spongebob doesn't get his free lunch (''cue [[ArtShift close-up animated in]] SynchroVox'') ''things are gonna get '''crazy'''!''
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E23MonsterBuddies "Monster Buddies"]], the title character manages to train one of the normally violent monsters that he and the team fight. When the other crystal gems find out, Steven attempts to show that he has trained it by commanding it to fire its acidic spit on command (triggered by squawking like a seagull). Since they are indoors, this naturally hits several objects, most notably a picture of [[TeamMom Pearl]] on the wall, which aggravates both her and [[TheLeader Garnet]], but [[FunPersonified Amethyst]] thinks it's hilarious. At least she does until some of the acid spit hits the sandwich in her hands [[note]](Thanks to her alien biology she doesn't even have to eat...she simply enjoys it so much she's doing it as a hobby)[[/note]]. She is quick to turn on the little creature after that.
-->'''Amethyst:''' [[BigNo NOOOOO!!!]] [[GratuitousSpanish MI TORTAAA!!!]]
* Happens at the end of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'', "Legendary Sandwich", when Silkie sneaks in while the Titans (sans Raven) are bickering over who gets the first taste of the sandwich and outright devours it himself, only to spew it back out moments later.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' episode "Thomas Comes to Breakfast", Thomas, thanks to a careless cleaner, crashes into a house where the stationmaster and his family live. His wife was furious and yells at Thomas for ruining the family breakfast, [[SkewedPriorities seemingly more concerned with that]] than the property damage inflicted by ''a steam train crashing into their house''.
* In one episode of the 1987 ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|1987}}'', Michelangelo is goofing off and eating pizza during training when two of his brothers wreck one of his pizzas, causing him to go on a rampage that ends up helping Michelangelo win the training match.
* ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'': In "Lunch With Tabes", Ranger Tabes discovers someone ate the sandwich she had made for lunch while she was busy walking her dog Kirk, and interrogates the Bears as to who might have eaten it.
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-->'''Brockman:''' I don't read the news until I get my danish.

-->'''Homer:''' [[ThisCannotBe This is not happening!]] This is ''not'' happening!

** In a ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' segment, Bart uses a [[Series/TheTwilightZone time-stopping watch]] to make donuts disappear one by one as Homer is about to eat them. Homer ends up trying to [[DrivenToSuicide stab himself in despair]], but Bart replaces the knife with a banana.

* ''VideoGame/LEGONinjagoShadowOfRonin'': In [[spoiler:Chen's Palace]], one of Ronin's guards won't open a door the ninjas need to get through until he receives his food order, so the ninjas have to make it for him. Give him the wrong order and he'll put it in the trash, which upsets Cole because he wanted to eat it. A Gold Brick is even earned for doing this.

* In a particular [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1M3t_EWlzg Viewer Mail]] segment in ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'', Mackenzie reveals that [[DisproportionateRetribution this is the reason why she ruined Shay's life.]]

-->"JOEY DOESN'T SHARE FOOD!"

** She brings fried tofu on ramen for her lunch. She offers some to both the PlayerCharacter and Yosuke, and after taking a bite, the two of them rapidly eat the whole thing. [[ButThouMust (The player themselves have no say in this.)]] She's understandably ticked off for the rest of the scene.

** Played for laughs in "Heat Signature", when Lumpy Space Princess gets [[ComicalOverreacting melodramatically angry]] when Finn and Jake (who've been tricked into thinking they're ghosts and can turn invisible) knock over the can of beans she was cooking.

* Gollum in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' is hardly pleased with cooked meat, seeing it as "spoiled" when he'd [[PrefersRawMeat rather have it raw]]. This ends up as just another way him and Sam butt heads, particularly when Sam turns a rabbit he caught into a stew.
** The movie turned it into a minor meme: "Stupid fat hobbit! You ''ruins'' it!"