History Main / OneTrackMindedHunger

''Nothing'' can convince them ''not'' to eat everything they can reach... except maybe another OneTrackMindedHunger character. Most of the time, it's NOT a good idea to stand between them and their food unless you're a {{Badass}}.

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* Almost ''every'' zombie ''ever'' fall in this category. They're not malicious, they're only hungry and ''mindless''.

* In the play of ''Theater/{{Metamorphoses}}'', Ceres curses Erysichthon with an insatiable hunger. He eats everything he can. Sells his possessions and then tries to sell his own mother for food, and then eventually eats himself.

* In the play of {{Metamorphoses}}, Ceres curses Erysichthon with an insatiable hunger. He eats everything he can. Sells his possessions and then tries to sell his own mother for food, and then eventually eats himself.

* ''{{Manga/Toriko}}'''s Neo lives and breathes the trope. It's only goal in existence is to revive through Acacia's Full Course ([[spoiler: the Full Course of the World]]) and devour the world. Since the manga is about food, [[SelfDemonstratingTrope it is essentially a self-demonstrating example]].

* {{Galactus}} in many of his incarnations. He even says he's AboveGoodAndEvil!

''Nothing'' can convince them ''not'' to eat everything they can reach. Except maybe a powerful fighter (even if most of the time, it's NOT a good idea to stand between them and their food) or another OneTrackMindedHunger character.

Note that they don't spend their whole time ''thinking of food'', because '''thinking takes time on the eating.''' [[EldritchAbomination Some of them can't even think.]]

* ''InNomine''. Haagenti is the Demon Prince of Gluttony. He spends all his time either eating or getting more food, and anyone around him is at risk of becoming his next meal.

* ''DungeonsAndDragons''

** DarkSun setting. The Fael are undead creatures who never quenched their need for material consumption in life. In death, they're condemned to be always hungry and always searching out food to eat. Worse yet, the more they eat the hungrier they get, so no matter how much they eat they're never satisfied.

** Fiendworm (or whatever its name is) is an earthworm that has a rift to the Abyss in its stomach and in constant pain. Eating reduces the pain so it seeks to eat as much as it can (or something like that anyways.)

* ''Anime/DragonBall:'' Majin Buu, in his "fat" form, is quite malicious but really only cares about candy. The number of people he killed ''without'' eating them can be counted on one hand.

* ''DragonBallAbridged'' turns Goku into this.

* DragonBall: Majin Buu, in his "fat" form, is quite malicious but really only cares about candy. The number of people he killed ''without'' eating them can be counted on one hand.

* [[OnePiece Luffy]] only think about one thing outside fights and that is food.

* There's a brief bit in one of the {{Discworld}} novels which shows the POV of a shark, whose entire mentality comes down to "=", i.e. "sense it = eat it". (It's brief, because the "it" it senses is Rincewind's feet, and the Luggage follows a similar equation with regards to anything that threatens its master...)

* Ungoliant from TheSilmarillion is a spider-like EldritchAbomination who is all about hunger and eating stuff. She teamed up with [[BigBad Morgoth]] because she was hungry and he offered her to suck the Two Trees dry. Later she betrayed Morgoth because she was still hungry and wanted to eat [[MacGuffin the Silmarils]]. Morgoth had to call his devil goon squad to stop her from eating these artifacts, since she was already overpowering him. Ungoliant isn't around anymore because she eventually ''ate herself to death''.

* TheMaw's entire purpose is to eat everything, to the level of a CosmicHorror.

* DragonBall: Majin Buu, in his "fat" form, is quite malicious but really only care about candy. The number of people he killed ''without'' eating them can be counted on one hand.

* The Gobblers from ''VideoGame/{{Wizard 101}}'' definitely apply. They are {{ExtremeOmnivore}}s that continue to eat buildings even after they are fed a potion that is suppose to both magically and chemically trigger the gag reflex.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'''

* ''DungeonsAndDragons'' supplement [=REF5=] ''Lords of Darkness''. One opponent the {{PC}}s can encounter is Rugen Phimister, a ghoul who is always hungry and always eating.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''' Tasmanian Devil. Many episodes open with a description of him which includes a {{long list}} of animals he eats, ending with "especially [[WesternAnimation/BugsBunny rabbits]]", or on one ocassion, [[WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck wild duck]].

*** As would WileECoyote--frankly, any animal protagonist in an animated cartoon would probably qualify.

* The Spirit Eater Curse from ''[[VideoGame/NeverwinterNights Mask of the Betrayer]]'' is built around this trope. The Spirit Eater is a horrific demi-godlike entity that turns the host into an insatiable devourer of spirits, fey, and the dark energy of the undead. The curse becomes so strong that it eventually consumes the soul of the host; destroying the very essence of their existence and leaving only an empty corpse behind. The eater has consumed countless spirits for generations, and the PlayerCharacter can use it ForTheEvulz. It devours all life the forgotten realms and a couple other planes. The gods band together to fight it and it [[KilledOffForReal literally eats half of them]] before they bring it down. (It's even implied that the Betrayer didn't truly die from the wrath of a dozen gods.)

* The alien slugs in {{Slither}} can turn people into this. It's implied the first woman it infects eats her own baby.
* Pizza, The Hut from the movie SpaceBalls is always eating. And when locked in his car, he eats himself to death

* Ungoliant from TheSilmarillion is a spider-like EldritchAbomination who is all about hunger and eating stuff. She teamed up with [[BigBad Morgoth]] because she was hungry and he offered her to suck the Two Trees dry. Later she betrayed Morgoth because she was still hungry and wanted to eat [[MacGuffin the Silmarils]]. Morgoth had to call his devil goon squad to stop her from eating these artifacts, since she was already overpowering him.

* In ''{{Animorphs}}'', the Taxxons have an endless hunger that drives them to eat their own wounded (as well as anything else they can get their mouths on).

* Gluttony the Homunculus in FullmetalAlchemist is technically a bad guy, but he's really more of a mentally-deranged kid with ExtremeOmnivore tendencies.

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* [[HordeOfAlienLocusts The Tyranids]] from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}}''.

* [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40K The Tyranids]]

* [[Warhammer40K The Tyranids]]

* The demon Gorgoth in ''{{Arcanum}}'' is cursed with insatiable hunger, and was banished to [[SealedEvilInACan the Void]] when he chowed down on a halfling village and no-one could think of anything better to do with him. Recruiting him into your party and keeping him loyal requires you to keep him fed with a steady supply of lizard carcasses.
* In ''CommanderKeen'' the Dopefish - the second dumbest creatrue in the universe - has a though process that goes "Swim swim hungry. Swim swim hungry."
* Quina of ''FinalFantasyIX'' is always on the lookout for new food to try and will eat, or express interest in eating, anything, including at one point, a rock.
* The Heartless in KingdomHearts act all out of instict, and their instinct is to get hearts to eat. Nothing more.
* {{Kirby}} is seen as a hero, and yet more than once he saved the world by accident, looking for a cake or something similar.
* Kog'maw, a LeagueOfLegends champion, attack only using his gastric acid. It's stated he spit acid on stuff because he can't swallow them whole (yet), meaning anyone he spits on ''is a potential breakfast''. And because it's a baby, he doesn't even understand good and evil.
** Same with Cho'Gath, except that Cho actually is ChaoticEvil too. It is an EldritchAbomination in constant hunger, devouring anything coming too close to its claws. And its main objective is to bring its species to join the feast.

* The Spirit Eater Curse from [[NeverwinterNights Mask of the Betrayer]] is built around this trope. The Spirit Eater is a horrific demi-godlike entity that turns the host into an insatiable devourer of spirits, fey, and the dark energy of the undead. The curse becomes so strong that it eventually consumes the soul of the host; destroying the very essence of their existence and leaving only an empty corpse behind. The eater has consumed countless spirits for generations, and the PlayerCharacter can use it ForTheEvulz. It devours all life the forgotten realms and a couple other planes. The gods band together to fight it and it [[KilledOffForReal literally eats half of them]] before they bring it down. (It's even implied that the Betrayer didn't truly die from the wrath of a dozen gods.)

* The {{Pokemon}} Munchlax.
* The Gobblers from {{Wizard101}} definitely apply. They are {{ExtremeOmnivore}}s that continue to eat buildings even after they are fed a potion that is suppose to both magically and chemically trigger the gag reflex.

* DragonBallAbridged turns Goku into this.

* ''CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'' did this in an episode where a kid somehow got cloned. The clones were all ravenously hungry and the more they ate, the more they multiplied. There was quite a while of repeated "we are hungry" cries while the gang worked to undo it. It was possibly an overpopulation lesson.
* ''LooneyTunes''' Tasmanian Devil. Many episodes open with a description of him which includes a {{long list}} of animals he eats, ending with "especially [[BugsBunny rabbits]]", or on one ocassion, [[DaffyDuck wild duck]].
** Sylvester may also qualify. Most of his villainous antics abide to setting on eating some small animal. Outside of those moments he is either forced into a chase by a human owner or acts as a non provocative protagonist.
*** As would WileECoyote-frankly any animal protagonist in an animated cartoon would probably qualify.
* The 4 turtles and especially Michelangelo from ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles''. Must. Have. PIZZA!

* Any carnivorous animal that wasn't feed for a few days/weeks.