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* ''Film/UnderWraps'': When Harold the mummy is awakened, he chases the gang until he comes across a bathroom. [[RipVanTinkle He goes inside to use it and the others hear him peeing.]]

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* ''Anime/YokaiWatch'': Yo-Kai are ghosts who are often seen eating. Jibanyan [[ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare the cat-based Yo-Kai in particular loves eating chocolate bars]] and Hungramps can make anyone, including his fellow Yo-Kai, hungry. Cheeksqueek's debut episode reveals that Yo-Kai can fart (though Whisper tries to deny this at first) and Fidgephant's debut shows that they can use the bathroom when Fidgephant uses his PottyEmergency-inducing powers on Roughraff and later Manjimutt.

* In ''Theatre/JasperInDeadland'', the corpses in Deadland all suffer from GhostAmnesia, but apart from that they're just like normal humans. They drink bottled water, can smoke cigarettes and hookah, and even though [[YouCantKillWhatsAlreadyDead they can't die]], they still have functioning organs, as shown when Gretchen tears out her heart to use it for a transplant.

* ''VisualNovel/MonsterProm'': All the undead characters in the game act just the same as every other monster. Brian/Yellow is a zombie, but as a playable character, he can do everything his living counterparts can. And Polly the ghost girl eats, sleeps, and does epic amounts of drugs (though she does take advantage of the fact that being dead means she can't overdose).

* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': Yuyuko is a ghost but has no issue eating and loves doing so. Remilia and Flandre also regularly have their maid Sakuya craft them full-course meals, though it is known that their desserts have a substantial amount of blood mixed into them.

* ''Anime/YoKaiWatch'': Yo-Kai are ghosts who are often seen eating. Jibanyan [[ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare the cat-based Yo-Kai in particular loves eating chocolate bars]] and Hungramps can make anyone, including his fellow Yo-Kai, hungry. Cheeksqueek's debut episode reveals that Yo-Kai can fart (though Whisper tries to deny this at first) and Fidgephant's debut shows that they can use the bathroom when Fidgephant uses his PottyEmergency-inducing powers on Roughraff and later Manjimutt.

** Similarly, the shows portray vampires as being able to drink alcohol and even get drunk. Spike likes the hitting the sauce as much as he likes his cigarettes, and Harmony is shown drinking a martini at one point.

'''Ned:''' You're either living or your dead. When you're living, you're alive. When you're dead, that's what you are. But when you're dead and then you're not, you're alive again. Can't we say "alive again"?

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcgee'': Despite being a ghost, Scratch sleeps (a lot), eats (a lot), and somehow is even allergic to carob. "Waking Nightmare" also has a gag where Grim thinks he sat on a whoopie cushion and is implied to have actually farted, in spite of the earlier episode "Duck!" having him make it very clear that he is incapable of flatulence due to being a skeleton who lacks the required organs to do so.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': Grim is seen eating several times and gets sick in "Night of the Living Grim". Billy and Mandy are surprised that the grim reaper can get sick.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGhostAndMollyMcgee'': Despite being a ghost, Scratch sleeps (a lot), eats (a lot), and somehow is even allergic to carob.

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* The zombies in ''Anime/MonsterMusume'' are a varied bunch depending on their stages of wear and tear (they rot if not preserved and can't heal, so injuries stay forever leaving them as Frankenstein-esque patchworks in extreme cases), but the 'freshest' undead are basically indistinguishable from normal humans: one of them, [[UndeadChild Yuuhi]] had no clue that she had died and risen again until Ms. Smith examined her and realized she had no pulse. In basically all cases of undead, they retain their human personalities, can eat, need sleep, and retain at least some measure of feeling; Zombina can't feel pain, but ''can'' feel pleasure.

* ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania'': During the opening, Dracula (who is a vampire) [[TheDiaperChange changes his daughter Mavis's diaper]], and Mavis later grows up into an adult vampire (albeit over the course of 118 years). It's also invoked at one point; Frank moves his detached lower body over to Murray the mummy and farts loudly to make it look like he did it.
* ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania2'': Mavis the vampire becomes pregnant after she and Johnny get married, and she gives birth to Dennis the {{Dhampyr}}. During said pregnancy, she [[WackyCravings craves ice cream with anchovies]].
* ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania3SummerVacation'': Ericka hears that Dracula the vampire is [[PlotAllergy allergic]] to [[VampiresHateGarlic garlic]], so she tricks him into eating garlic-laced guacamole to kill him. All this does is make him break wind. Later, the same thing happens to Mavis (who is also a vampire).

-->'''Gilbert''': Man, that mummy had to ''go''.

-->'''AJ''': I didn't know ghosts use the bathroom.
-->'''Ghost''': Now you know.

* While the title character does continue to eat and drink in Geoph Essex's ''Lovely Assistant'', this trope is {{Averted|Trope}} at least twice, first with regard to menstruation:
-->She politely refrained from pointing out that she hadn’t gotten her period since she’d died. Her cycle had always been a bit erratic anyway, but she had been slightly nervous for a week or two at the prospect of raising a tiny Keith Heckler—her meetings with Caravel had settled that question, though, when she discovered that she was, technically speaking, dead. Jenny was pretty sure the dead didn’t get pregnant any more than they menstruated.

-->She made a quick round trip through the bathroom to snatch her toothbrush, hairbrush, and a few other items, and shoved them into the backpack’s side pocket. The clean white toilet made her pause: she hadn’t actually sat on a toilet in at least a week. To Jenny, bathrooms had become useful private spots with easy passage to Wonderland, rather than places to go to relieve herself. Since she now knew how to use her sword, bathrooms were even less relevant.

--> '''Ned:''' And "undead"? Nobody wants to be "un"-anything. Why begin a statement with a negative? It's like saying "I don't disagree." Just say you agree.
-->'''Emerson:''' Are you comfortable with "living dead"?
--> '''Ned:''' You're either living or your dead. When you're living, you're alive. When you're dead, that's what you are. But when you're dead and then you're not, you're alive again. Can't we say "alive again"?
* ''Series/SesameStreet'': The Count is a FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire, yet he feels pain (as shown in an episode where he screams because a bee stung him) and one episode has him [[SickEpisode catch a type of flu]] that makes him faint.

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* ''WebVideo/CinemaSins'': Mocked in the ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania'' review when Jeremy quips that no one was wondering if vampires can defecate when Dracula is [[TheDiaperChange changing baby Mavis]].
* ''WebVideo/EdgarAllanPoesMurderMysteryDinnerParty'': Lenore -- and other returned spirits like her -- appears no different from a living being. In fact, Charlotte repeatedly forgets that Lenore is already dead. She is capable of drinking alcohol and cooking soup, among other things, though she also has some typical ghostly powers, such as going incorporeal, making things appear, and being immune to toxins. She also indicates that it takes time and energy for a ghost to become corporeal (so she [[TheAlcoholic mostly uses it to drink]]).

* ''WebVideo/{{Smosh}}'': Discussed and defied in "Twilight: New Moon Deleted Scenes 1". [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Bella]] asks Edward if vampires defecate, to which he responds that [[NobodyPoops they don't]]. Bella is confused because ''Literature/EveryonePoops'' says that everybody does that.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': Drakeula the vampire from "Ducky Horror Picture Show" [[VegetarianVampire survives on apples.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/PacManAndTheGhostlyAdventures'': The ghosts in the Nether World don't appear to sleep, but they are often shown eating (there's even a chef named Ogle), and one ghost farts in "Stand by Your Pac-Man". In "No Pets Allowed...Especially Monsters! Part 2", Inky mentions that ghosts can use the bathroom. Cylindria is quite disgusted to hear about this.

* Even though vampires in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' are said to no longer need to breathe oxygen, it doesn't seem to stop Spike from smoking [[SmokingIsCool as long as it looks cool]].

* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': Yuyuko is a ghost but has no issue eating and loves doing so.

* ''Film/DeathBecomesHer'': The immortality potion in the film essentially make you immortal by technically making you into a living zombie since any major damage you take is permanent like getting holes blown into your stomach and has to be fixed with everyday items like tape and makeup if that happens (the film never really dwells into specifics). Yet all who do can still drink and eat like normal.

* ''WebVideo/EdgarAllanPoesMurderMysteryDinnerParty'': Lenore -- and other returned spirits like her -- appears no different from a living being. She is capable of drinking alcohol and cooking soup, among other things, though she also has some typical ghostly powers, such as going incorporeal, making things appear, and being immune to toxins. She also indicates that it takes time and energy for a ghost to become corporeal (so she [[TheAlcoholic mostly uses it to drink]]).

* ''WebVideo/EdgarAllenPoesMurderMysteryDinnerParty'': Lenore -- and other returned spirits like her -- appears no different from a living being. She is capable of drinking alcohol and cooking soup, among other things, though she also has some typical ghostly powers, such as going incorporeal, making things appear, and being immune to toxins. She also indicates that it takes time and energy for a ghost to become corporeal (so she [[TheAlcoholic mostly uses it to drink]]).

* ''Series/PushingDaisies'': The people Ned brings back to life appear to be no different from the way they were before they died, unless they sustained a gruesome injury or have significantly rotted. They can eat, drink, get hurt, etc. To the trained nose they smell of death, but that's about it. It is also unclear whether they age slowly or at all. In fact, as discussed in "Pie-lette", Ned feels they should not qualify as "undead" at all:

* ''Advertising/MonsterCereals'': Of the five monsters, four of them (Count Chocula, Frankenberry, Boo Berry, and Fruity Yummy Mummy) are undead creatures. Despite this, they still shill and eat their trademark cereals and are also seen needing sleep.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Brook, thanks to the revive-revive fruit, is a living skeleton who can get bruised despite lacking skin, and when asked by Luffy, he confirms that he is capable of pooping. He also eats despite lacking a stomach, is shown frequently to be a DirtyOldMan, and like every other devil fruit user, he is [[WeaksauceWeakness weak to sea water]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'': Ghost-type Pokemon are Pokemon meant to be based on ghosts, with some of them (such as Gengar, Phantump, and Yamask) even being stated to be once-living humans. Despite this, they are shown to be just as capable of breeding, eating, sleeping, and getting status conditions just like any other type of Pokemon. They even seem to be capable of dying, with the ghost of a Mimikyu and the remains of a Trevenant being seen in the [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries anime]].

* In ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'', and its TV adaptation, the vampire Cassidy has no fangs, eats human food (but with lots of rare steak) and drinks vast amounts of alcohol. The only traditional vampiric weakness he displays is that direct sunlight ignites him, and in the comic version he always wears shades due to, it's finally revealed, having red irises and very bloodshot whites.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11257843/1/Difficulty-Levels Difficulty Levels]]'', a fic based on ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm''. Raynor, Rehgar, Kerrigan and Uther are all discussing their [[DoubleEntendre "Difficulty"]], and debating whether or not they'd sleep with [[AttractiveZombie Sylvanas]], only to find the Banshee Queen in question walking away adjusting her trousers following an... encounter with [[OurMinotaursAreDifferent the Elite Tauren Chieftain]]. Sylvanas just says, "I'm undead, not dead."

** Ebony is a vampire, but she still sleeps as often as a human and in one scene, she's shown eating cereal (albeit [[BlackComedy with blood instead of milk]]).

* ''Film/DeathBecomesHer'': The immortality potion in the film essentially make you immortal by technically making you into a living zombie since any major damage you take is permanent like getting holes blow into your stomach and has to be fixed with everyday items like tape and makeup if that happens (the film never really dwells into specifics). Yet all who do can still drink and eat like normal.

* ''Literature/MrMen'': At the end of "Mr. Men: Adventure with Monsters", several Mr. Men and Little Misses enjoy tea and crumpets with monsters in a haunted house. Among the ones eating and drinking are a mummy, a vampire (who claims to have a SweetTooth) and a FrankensteinsMonster.

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'': Vampirism is caused by a disease, so vampires can eat, drink, and sleep; are susceptible to drowning; and can [[{{Dhampyr}} have children]]. Unlike other undead, they're still considered humanoid for the purposes of [[YourSoulIsMine Soul Trap]] effects.

* ''VisualNovel/MonsterProm'': All the undead characters in the game act just the same as every other monster. Brian/Yellow is a zombie, but as a playable character he can do everything his living counterparts can. And Polly the ghost girl eats, sleeps, and does epic amounts of drugs (though she does take advantage of the fact that being dead means she can't overdose).

This is usually unexplained (after all, the very existence of the undead is often a mystery) but is often PlayedForLaughs. As such, the character in question may be a SillySpook.