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Many of those who eats souls do it for a living, due to it being the thing that keeps them alive (especially for soul-eating monsters and other creatures), or because they want to [[ImmortalityInducer live forever]] or keep their youth, or because they're getting stronger and healthier with every soul they devour. Some rarer cases, however, may occur only once or twice, especially for "mundane" beings who normally don't eat souls.
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* The Akujiki from the 2002 ''VideoGame/Shinobi'' drinks souls.
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* Shadow Fiend from VideoGame/{{Dota2}} take souls to power his attack through ''Necromastery'' and release an unholy surge of energy through ''Requiem of Souls''.
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* Shadow Fiend from VideoGame/{{Dota2}} ''VideoGame/{{Dota2}}'' take souls to power his attack through ''Necromastery'' and release an unholy surge of energy through ''Requiem of Souls''.
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* The aptly-named Soul-Drinker, an EldritchAbomination from the ''ComicBook/XMen'' comics, has this as its shtick, though it is only able to consume one soul per summon. For its adaptation into the [[WesternAnimation/XMen 90s animated series]] it was somehow made more menacing ''and'' LighterAndSofter, as it could in that continuity consume multiple souls, but it also took time to digest them and if it was destroyed quickly enough, the souls it consumed would be restored (as happened when Wolverine and Gambit ultimately dispatched it).
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* In Matthew Costello's novelization of ''Film/ChildsPlay3'' Chucky's god, the voodoo loa Damballah, is revealed to be this in a flashback scene. Chucky specifically refers to it as "the soul catcher" and "the eater of spirits".
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** In the anime, the Bount are a group of vampiric humans who gain [[TheAgeless agelessness]] and extra spiritual power by draining human souls. They become a much bigger problem when they start producing mosquito-like constructs that can extract and distill soul energy for their consumption much more efficiently.
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** In the anime, the Bount are a group of vampiric humans who gain [[TheAgeless agelessness]] and extra spiritual power by draining human souls. consuming the souls of dead humans. They become a much bigger problem when they start producing mosquito-like constructs that can extract and distill soul energy from the living for their consumption much more efficiently.consumption.
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** In the anime, the Bount are a group of vampiric humans who gain [[TheAgeless agelessness]] and extra spiritual power by draining human souls. They become a much bigger problem when they start producing mosquito-like constructs that can extract and distill soul energy for their consumption much more efficiently.
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** The fan comic ''Webcomic/ProjectFuture'' features the creation of 'artificial souls' for creatures to consume, avoiding many of the ethical, moral, legal, health and sanity problems associated with consuming natural souls.
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* In ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'', Angelo Souballo has a collection of [[YourSoulIsMine trapped souls]] in gemstones, and sometimes [[http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0662.html eats one]] as a snack. The habit might have something to do with him being AmbiguouslyHuman with a DamagedSoul and a possible case of DemonicPossession.
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* Vulgrim from ''{{VideoGame/Darksiders}}'' consumes souls collected by War as currency.
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* Shesha from ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'' devours the souls of people [[spoiler:in order to fuel the [[WombLevel Cosmic Egg]] - of which is actually Shesha's body - to create a new universe.]]
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* In ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' expansion pack ''Hordes of the Underdark'', Mephistopheles devours souls in his home plane Cania to fuel his power to raise an army of undead in the Forgotten Realms.
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* ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'': The cursed sword Soul Edge and its host Nightmare become more powerful by devouring the souls of its victims.
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* ''ComicBook/{Aquila}}'': Aquila serves Ammit The Devourer, an EldritchAbomination which feeds on human souls tainted by wickedness.
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* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', the Barghest grows by feeding on the bodies and souls of its victims, which can leave them too damaged for even the most powerful resurrection magic to work on them.
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** The Barghest grows by feeding on the bodies and souls of its victims, which can leave them too damaged for even the most powerful resurrection magic to work onthem.them.
** Devourers consume the essence of living beings, creating a spectral effigy trapped in their exposed ribcage bearing the image of the victim, which is depleted by the use of their spell-like abilities. Destroying the Devourer before the essence is depleted allowed the victim to be resurrected.
** Demiliches, such as Acererak from the classic module TabletopGame/TombOfHorrors, can suck out your soul and slowly digest it to increase the power of their spells.
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** Demiliches, such as Acererak from the classic module TabletopGame/TombOfHorrors, can suck out your soul and slowly digest it to increase the power of their spells.
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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', Daemons are {{Omnicidal Maniac}}s who devour every mortal soul they can, [[EvilVersusEvil angering]] the Devils and Demons who prefer to use them in trade and as [[PoweredByAForsakenChild raw materials]]. People crazy enough to try MainliningTheMonster can refine Daemon spinal fluid into a potent drug that contains the memories of the souls they've digested.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', Daemons are {{Omnicidal Maniac}}s who devour every mortal soul they can, [[EvilVersusEvil angering]] the Devils and Demons who prefer to use them in trade and as [[PoweredByAForsakenChild raw materials]]. People crazy enough to try MainliningTheMonster can refine Daemon spinal fluid into a potent drug that contains the memories of the souls they've digested.
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* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': The Crocotta is a MonsterOfTheWeek which feeds on human souls. They're fairly low on the monster totem pole all the same, living in filth and only being able to lure in victims by being a VoiceChangeling.
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* Downplayed in ''Literature/{{Warbreaker}}'': everybody is born with a single Breath, which is the currency of the magical art of Awakening. The Returned ComeBackStrong from death but must consume one Breath every week. The country of Idris abhors the Returned as soul-stealing abominations, but the fact is that the Breath is distinct from the spirit and people are only mildly inconvenienced by losing it.
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* Played with in ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'': the LivingShadow [[spoiler:baby [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]]]] Shadowchild can consume shadows, with the side effect that any living thing whose shadow it eats is left an EmptyShell. While it can eat things like fish this way, it also mentions "shadows on the heart" that guilty people have, and once tells Digger not to worry because she doesn't have any. Nobody's quite sure what that means for the metaphysics of its diet.
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* Played with in ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'': the LivingShadow [[spoiler:baby [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]]]] Shadowchild can consume shadows, with the side effect that any living thing whose shadow it eats is left an EmptyShell. While it can eat things like fish this way, it also mentions "shadows on the heart" that guilty people have, and once tells Digger not to worry because she doesn't have any. Nobody's quite sure what that means for the metaphysics of its diet.diet but the threat is definitely there.
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* In ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'' nature spirits (possibly other types, unsure) consume other spirits to become more powerful. They often acquire traits of the consumed spirit as well, unless it was another spirit of the same type or one that would be "in its nature" to eat, an example being a fox spirit eating a rabbit spirit.
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** In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' and ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'', this is how vampire-on-vampire cannibalism, named "Diablerie", works. Worse, it's addictive.
** In ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'', entities from the SpiritWorld consume other spirits to become more powerful. They often acquire traits of the consumed spirit as well, unless it was another spirit of the same type or one that would be "in its nature" to eat, an example being a fox spirit eating a rabbit spirit. A very rare few learn to supplement their diet with human souls.
** Tremere liches in ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' take ImmortalityImmorality to the extreme by requiring a steady diet of souls. If they can't consume souls, their minds fall apart and they eventually end up DeaderThanDead.
** In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' and ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'', this is how vampire-on-vampire cannibalism, named "Diablerie", works. Worse, it's addictive.
** In ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'', entities from the SpiritWorld consume other spirits to become more powerful. They often acquire traits of the consumed spirit as well, unless it was another spirit of the same type or one that would be "in its nature" to eat, an example being a fox spirit eating a rabbit spirit. A very rare few learn to supplement their diet with human souls.
** Tremere liches in ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' take ImmortalityImmorality to the extreme by requiring a steady diet of souls. If they can't consume souls, their minds fall apart and they eventually end up DeaderThanDead.
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* In ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' Cubi are notorious for eating souls, though they can subside on mere [[EmotionEater emotions]], souls extend their lifespans and increase their magic. [[spoiler: Other creatures can do it as well, a dragon was harvesting souls from the dead of a city until Dan's grandmother killed him and accidentally glassed the region.]]
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* In ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' Cubi are notorious for eating souls, souls; though they can subside on mere [[EmotionEater emotions]], {{emotion|Eater}}s, souls extend their lifespans and increase their magic. [[spoiler: Other creatures can do it as well, a dragon was harvesting souls from the dead of a city until Dan's grandmother killed him and accidentally glassed the region.]]]]
* Played with in ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'': the LivingShadow [[spoiler:baby [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]]]] Shadowchild can consume shadows, with the side effect that any living thing whose shadow it eats is left an EmptyShell. While it can eat things like fish this way, it also mentions "shadows on the heart" that guilty people have, and once tells Digger not to worry because she doesn't have any. Nobody's quite sure what that means for the metaphysics of its diet.
* Played with in ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'': the LivingShadow [[spoiler:baby [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]]]] Shadowchild can consume shadows, with the side effect that any living thing whose shadow it eats is left an EmptyShell. While it can eat things like fish this way, it also mentions "shadows on the heart" that guilty people have, and once tells Digger not to worry because she doesn't have any. Nobody's quite sure what that means for the metaphysics of its diet.
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[[FridgeHorror What happened to the souls they eat, you say?]] Just as how food gets broken into nutrients in our body, souls tend to get "broken" into their components that nourishes the eater, so the souls effectively [[CessationOfExistence cease to be aware or exist]]. Sometimes, however, the souls that they eat may remain intact in the eater's person, and might even be able to be taken out of the eater. Either way, eaten souls can't go to any afterlife (at least until they're freed, somehow).
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* In ''Manga/BlackButler'' the terms of Ciel's FaustianBargain with Sebastian is that once Ciel has achieved his life's goals Sebastian gets to eat his soul. In the meantime he acts as his utterly loyal butler.
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* In ''Manga/BlackButler'' the terms of Ciel's FaustianBargain with Sebastian is that once Ciel has achieved his life's goals Sebastian gets to eat his soul. In the meantime he acts as his utterly loyal butler.
** In season two of the anime Alois' brother Luca made a contract with a demon to kill all the villagers who mistreated them and his soul was eaten leaving an empty shell of a body. [[spoiler: Alois eventually learns that it was Hannah who ate him and makes a contract with her so they can be together again. After she collects the two of them are heard talking inside her.]]
* In ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' vampires consume the souls of those they kill by draining blood, human or vampire, and keep them on call as "familiars" that can be summoned or expended to power their strongest abilities. [[spoiler: Alucard is nearly impossible to kill because he's eaten millions of souls, towards the end he summons them all as an army. But then he eats Schrodinger and his bizarre quantum-something powers cause him to disappear for decades.]]
** In season two of the anime Alois' brother Luca made a contract with a demon to kill all the villagers who mistreated them and his soul was eaten leaving an empty shell of a body. [[spoiler: Alois eventually learns that it was Hannah who ate him and makes a contract with her so they can be together again. After she collects the two of them are heard talking inside her.]]
* In ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' vampires consume the souls of those they kill by draining blood, human or vampire, and keep them on call as "familiars" that can be summoned or expended to power their strongest abilities. [[spoiler: Alucard is nearly impossible to kill because he's eaten millions of souls, towards the end he summons them all as an army. But then he eats Schrodinger and his bizarre quantum-something powers cause him to disappear for decades.]]
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* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': Souls from all the mortal races are devoured by the demons from hell, as well as succubi. [[spoiler:The main bad guy also dies this way when Lucifer shows his displeasure with his failure.]]
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* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': Souls from all the mortal races are devoured by the demons from hell, as well as succubi. [[spoiler:The main bad guy also dies this way when Lucifer shows his displeasure with his failure.]]
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* In ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', the apparently-magical recurring villain Maldis claims to eat souls, although this might just be mystification of something like LifeEnergy.
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* ''Tabletopgame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' has the Dark Eldar, who drink the souls of their victims, whom they torture for death for amusement. The main reason they devour souls is in order to maintain their youth, thus preventing them from dying and feeding Slaanesh with their souls.
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** The Dark Eldar, who drink the souls of their victims, whom they torture for death for amusement. The main reason they devour souls is in order to maintain their youth, thus preventing them from dying and feeding Slaanesh with theirsouls.souls, or because Slaanesh is continually draining their souls while alive and they use their victims souls to replenish or as a substitute for their own souls, DependingOnTheWriter.
** Souls comprise the diets of daemons and Chaos gods, either mortals or weaker daemons. Notably, Slaanesh devoured all but three of the Eldar gods shortly after awakening.
* In ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'' nature spirits (possibly other types, unsure) consume other spirits to become more powerful. They often acquire traits of the consumed spirit as well, unless it was another spirit of the same type or one that would be "in its nature" to eat, an example being a fox spirit eating a rabbit spirit.
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* The Soul-Eating Monster from ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'' is a serpentine monster who lives off the unfortunate souls of the Underworld. It's implied he's not alone, as the game's BigBad occasionally compares souls to food items like taffy.
* ''VideoGame/DragonFable'' has Roirr consume the souls of his host bodies. [[spoiler: This bites him back big time when they are all expelled from him, leaving him a charred skeleton.]]
* In ''{{VideoGame/Overwatch}}'' one of the lines Reaper may say when he spawns is "I will feast on their souls" and in-game he can absorb 50 health from each Soul Globe he collects from a downed enemy. Flavor text also mentions that the bodies of his victims are pale, empty husks drained of life, their cells showing signs of intense degradation.
* ''VideoGame/DragonFable'' has Roirr consume the souls of his host bodies. [[spoiler: This bites him back big time when they are all expelled from him, leaving him a charred skeleton.]]
* In ''{{VideoGame/Overwatch}}'' one of the lines Reaper may say when he spawns is "I will feast on their souls" and in-game he can absorb 50 health from each Soul Globe he collects from a downed enemy. Flavor text also mentions that the bodies of his victims are pale, empty husks drained of life, their cells showing signs of intense degradation.
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* In ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' Cubi are notorious for eating souls, though they can subside on mere [[EmotionEater emotions]], souls extend their lifespans and increase their magic. [[spoiler: Other creatures can do it as well, a dragon was harvesting souls from the dead of a city until Dan's grandmother killed him and accidentally glassed the region.]]
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* ''Videogame/MegaManZX:'' Cyber-elves, like in [[MegaManZero the previous series]], are EnergyBeings infused with the consciousness and data of an AI; a soul with an energy medium, essentially. In this series, it's also possible to turn living beings into Cyber-elves, as the line of humans and robots in the setting have become blurred. The [[MegaCorp Slither Inc.]] is revealed to be responsible for turning mass amounts of people into elves without the populace knowing, so that they'll become food for [[ArtifactOfDoom Model W]].
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* ''Videogame/MegaManZX:'' Cyber-elves, like in [[MegaManZero [[VideoGame/MegaManZero the previous series]], are EnergyBeings infused with the consciousness and data of an AI; a soul with an energy medium, essentially. In this series, it's also possible to turn living beings into Cyber-elves, as the line of humans and robots in the setting have become blurred. The [[MegaCorp Slither Inc.]] is revealed to be responsible for turning mass amounts of people into elves without the populace knowing, so that they'll become food for [[ArtifactOfDoom Model W]].
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This is about a character, or creature, who eats souls. How exactly they devour souls vary from story to story, but the case is almost always the same: the soul becomes a replenishment for someone/something else.
The effect eating souls have, aside from satiating hunger, may be either restoring your health, youth, LifeEnergy and/or {{Mana}}, increasing one's lifespan, gaining [[PowerCopying their power]] or knowledge in life, etc.
Many of those who eats souls do it for a living, due to it being the thing that keeps them alive (especially for soul-eating monsters and other creatures), or because they want to [[ImmortalityInducer live forever]] or keep their youth, or because they're getting stronger and healthier with every soul they devour. Some rarer cases, however, may occur only once or twice, especially for "mundane" beings who normally don't eat souls.
[[FridgeHorror What happened to the souls they eat, you say?]] Just as how food gets broken into nutrients in our body, souls tend to get "broken" into their components that nourishes the eater, so the souls effectively [[CessationOfExistence cease to be aware or exist]]. Sometimes, however, the souls that they eat may remain intact in the eater's person, and might even be able to be taken out of the eater. Either way, eaten souls can't go to any afterlife (at least until they're freed, somehow).
If someone has a SoulPower and/or {{necromancy}} ability, they may be able to do this.
SubTrope of AbstractEater and YourSoulIsMine. Often overlaps with VampiricDraining, CannibalismSuperpower, and/or HorrorHunger. Compare SoulPoweredEngine for engines that "eat" souls to work, and SoulCuttingBlade, weapons that harm souls.
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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** Hollows feed on human souls, and a Gillian-class Menos Hollow is created when hundreds of Hollows descend into an inter-cannibalistic frenzy and eat each other.
** The ''intelligent'' minority of Gillian -- as opposed to the mindless, bestial majority -- are also forced to devour other Hollows (Menos or otherwise), either partially or entirely, in order to avoid regressing back to a bestial state, as well as to gradually ascend the Menos evolution ladder (Gillian to Adjuchas, and then to Vasto Lorde).
** Then we have Aaroniero Arruruerie, the Noveno Espada (#9), who goes even further by combining the trope with CannibalismSuperpower, and by the time he debuted he had eaten [[spoiler:30,665]] Hollows (including one that had [[spoiler:assimilated a dead Soul Reaper's body via a somewhat different method]]).
* In ''Manga/SoulEater'': Humans with the weapon bloodline (essentially a gene which allows them to become an EquippableAlly) can eat the souls of other humans to grow stronger (the good guys only consume the souls of corrupted humans, villains tend to be less picky), so long as they also consume at least one [[WitchSpecies witch's soul]]. Those that indiscriminately eat other humans slowly become [[HumanoidAbomination Kishin]].
* Big Mom of ''Manga/OnePiece'' ate the Soul-Soul Fruit, which lets her physically interact with people's souls. The first time she demonstrates this power is during a hunger filled rampage where she eats a portion of one of her children's souls, shaving 40 years off his life and killing him.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}:'' one DangerousForbiddenTechnique summons the ''Shinigami'' with the user's body as its conduit, which then rips the enemy's soul and then devours them. As the payment for this technique, the user's soul will also be consumed by it and get locked in a fight with the souls its user ripped.
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* In C. S. Lewis' ''Literature/TheScrewtapeLetters'', demons eat the souls of other demons as well as of humans.
* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', the Dementors generally feed on human emotions. Their deadliest attack, the Dementor's Kiss, literally sucks out the soul of a person's body, turning the victim into a body that lives but can't feel any emotions or think any thoughts. This is treated as a FateWorseThanDeath.
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* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' and ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'': This is how vampire-on-vampire cannibalism, named "Diablerie", works.
* ''Tabletopgame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' has the Dark Eldar, who drink the souls of their victims, whom they torture for death for amusement. The main reason they devour souls is in order to maintain their youth, thus preventing them from dying and feeding Slaanesh with their souls.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Raziel in ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' is a vampire whose blood-hunger is replaced by soul-hunger.
* In ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'' expansion pack ''Mask of the Betrayer'', your character is inflicted with a curse called 'the Spirit-eater', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin which requires them to periodically nourish themselves by devouring spirits.]] Initially it only works on [[ElementalEmbodiment elementals]], [[TheFairFolk fey]] and [[OurGhostsAreDifferent incorporeal undead]], but you can learn how to direct the hunger at souls and corporeal undead.
* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'', creatures with dragon souls can consume other dragon souls to a) boost their own souls' power and b) destroy the other soul permanently (the only way to destroy the otherwise immortal dragons). Apart from dragons themselves, history knew a handful of humans and humanoid creatures born with dragon souls [[spoiler:as a result of manipulations by the Daedric Prince Haermeus Mora]], known as "Dragonborn", who can also do that. In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', the PlayerCharacter is a Dragonborn and devours the souls of the dragons they slay.
* ''Videogame/MegaManZX:'' Cyber-elves, like in [[MegaManZero the previous series]], are EnergyBeings infused with the consciousness and data of an AI; a soul with an energy medium, essentially. In this series, it's also possible to turn living beings into Cyber-elves, as the line of humans and robots in the setting have become blurred. The [[MegaCorp Slither Inc.]] is revealed to be responsible for turning mass amounts of people into elves without the populace knowing, so that they'll become food for [[ArtifactOfDoom Model W]].
* ''Videogame/BlazBlue:'' Ragna's Drive ability "Soul Eater" eats the souls of people. In-game, this is translated into LifeDrain attacks. There's also the EldritchAbomination of the verse, the Black Beast, who devoured mass amounts of souls in its rampage. [[spoiler:Ragna's source of his ability is the Azure Grimoire, an artifact made out of Black Beast's corpse.]]
* One of Tichondrius the dreadlord's lines in ''Videogame/WarcraftIII'' is "I must ''feast'' on souls!"
* ''Videogame/MortalKombat'' has Shang Tsung, who is cursed to devour the souls of his enemies in order to maintain his youth (and much more importantly, his life). His sorcery is also fueled by the souls of those he devours, making it doubly important that he devours more in order to maintain his power.
* Shadow Fiend from VideoGame/{{Dota2}} take souls to power his attack through ''Necromastery'' and release an unholy surge of energy through ''Requiem of Souls''.
-->"So, you're curious where I come from? There's one easy way to find out for yourself."
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[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'': Servants can do this to replenish their {{Mana}}, though the more wholesome ones are understandably quite averse to it. In [[LightNovel/FateApocrypha one]] [[JackTheRipper case]], the Servant -- a ChaoticEvil AntiVillain -- expressed a preference for ''evil'' souls, because their foulness makes them that much tastier, and souls of similar alignment are easier to digest.
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[[folder:WesternAnimation]]
* On ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', the guys watch a [[TheresNoBInMovie horror movie]] about a "cannibal ghost", who "scares you to death and eats your ghost".
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This is about a character, or creature, who eats souls. How exactly they devour souls vary from story to story, but the case is almost always the same: the soul becomes a replenishment for someone/something else.
The effect eating souls have, aside from satiating hunger, may be either restoring your health, youth, LifeEnergy and/or {{Mana}}, increasing one's lifespan, gaining [[PowerCopying their power]] or knowledge in life, etc.
Many of those who eats souls do it for a living, due to it being the thing that keeps them alive (especially for soul-eating monsters and other creatures), or because they want to [[ImmortalityInducer live forever]] or keep their youth, or because they're getting stronger and healthier with every soul they devour. Some rarer cases, however, may occur only once or twice, especially for "mundane" beings who normally don't eat souls.
[[FridgeHorror What happened to the souls they eat, you say?]] Just as how food gets broken into nutrients in our body, souls tend to get "broken" into their components that nourishes the eater, so the souls effectively [[CessationOfExistence cease to be aware or exist]]. Sometimes, however, the souls that they eat may remain intact in the eater's person, and might even be able to be taken out of the eater. Either way, eaten souls can't go to any afterlife (at least until they're freed, somehow).
If someone has a SoulPower and/or {{necromancy}} ability, they may be able to do this.
SubTrope of AbstractEater and YourSoulIsMine. Often overlaps with VampiricDraining, CannibalismSuperpower, and/or HorrorHunger. Compare SoulPoweredEngine for engines that "eat" souls to work, and SoulCuttingBlade, weapons that harm souls.
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** Hollows feed on human souls, and a Gillian-class Menos Hollow is created when hundreds of Hollows descend into an inter-cannibalistic frenzy and eat each other.
** The ''intelligent'' minority of Gillian -- as opposed to the mindless, bestial majority -- are also forced to devour other Hollows (Menos or otherwise), either partially or entirely, in order to avoid regressing back to a bestial state, as well as to gradually ascend the Menos evolution ladder (Gillian to Adjuchas, and then to Vasto Lorde).
** Then we have Aaroniero Arruruerie, the Noveno Espada (#9), who goes even further by combining the trope with CannibalismSuperpower, and by the time he debuted he had eaten [[spoiler:30,665]] Hollows (including one that had [[spoiler:assimilated a dead Soul Reaper's body via a somewhat different method]]).
* In ''Manga/SoulEater'': Humans with the weapon bloodline (essentially a gene which allows them to become an EquippableAlly) can eat the souls of other humans to grow stronger (the good guys only consume the souls of corrupted humans, villains tend to be less picky), so long as they also consume at least one [[WitchSpecies witch's soul]]. Those that indiscriminately eat other humans slowly become [[HumanoidAbomination Kishin]].
* Big Mom of ''Manga/OnePiece'' ate the Soul-Soul Fruit, which lets her physically interact with people's souls. The first time she demonstrates this power is during a hunger filled rampage where she eats a portion of one of her children's souls, shaving 40 years off his life and killing him.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}:'' one DangerousForbiddenTechnique summons the ''Shinigami'' with the user's body as its conduit, which then rips the enemy's soul and then devours them. As the payment for this technique, the user's soul will also be consumed by it and get locked in a fight with the souls its user ripped.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In C. S. Lewis' ''Literature/TheScrewtapeLetters'', demons eat the souls of other demons as well as of humans.
* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', the Dementors generally feed on human emotions. Their deadliest attack, the Dementor's Kiss, literally sucks out the soul of a person's body, turning the victim into a body that lives but can't feel any emotions or think any thoughts. This is treated as a FateWorseThanDeath.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' and ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'': This is how vampire-on-vampire cannibalism, named "Diablerie", works.
* ''Tabletopgame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' has the Dark Eldar, who drink the souls of their victims, whom they torture for death for amusement. The main reason they devour souls is in order to maintain their youth, thus preventing them from dying and feeding Slaanesh with their souls.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Raziel in ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' is a vampire whose blood-hunger is replaced by soul-hunger.
* In ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'' expansion pack ''Mask of the Betrayer'', your character is inflicted with a curse called 'the Spirit-eater', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin which requires them to periodically nourish themselves by devouring spirits.]] Initially it only works on [[ElementalEmbodiment elementals]], [[TheFairFolk fey]] and [[OurGhostsAreDifferent incorporeal undead]], but you can learn how to direct the hunger at souls and corporeal undead.
* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'', creatures with dragon souls can consume other dragon souls to a) boost their own souls' power and b) destroy the other soul permanently (the only way to destroy the otherwise immortal dragons). Apart from dragons themselves, history knew a handful of humans and humanoid creatures born with dragon souls [[spoiler:as a result of manipulations by the Daedric Prince Haermeus Mora]], known as "Dragonborn", who can also do that. In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', the PlayerCharacter is a Dragonborn and devours the souls of the dragons they slay.
* ''Videogame/MegaManZX:'' Cyber-elves, like in [[MegaManZero the previous series]], are EnergyBeings infused with the consciousness and data of an AI; a soul with an energy medium, essentially. In this series, it's also possible to turn living beings into Cyber-elves, as the line of humans and robots in the setting have become blurred. The [[MegaCorp Slither Inc.]] is revealed to be responsible for turning mass amounts of people into elves without the populace knowing, so that they'll become food for [[ArtifactOfDoom Model W]].
* ''Videogame/BlazBlue:'' Ragna's Drive ability "Soul Eater" eats the souls of people. In-game, this is translated into LifeDrain attacks. There's also the EldritchAbomination of the verse, the Black Beast, who devoured mass amounts of souls in its rampage. [[spoiler:Ragna's source of his ability is the Azure Grimoire, an artifact made out of Black Beast's corpse.]]
* One of Tichondrius the dreadlord's lines in ''Videogame/WarcraftIII'' is "I must ''feast'' on souls!"
* ''Videogame/MortalKombat'' has Shang Tsung, who is cursed to devour the souls of his enemies in order to maintain his youth (and much more importantly, his life). His sorcery is also fueled by the souls of those he devours, making it doubly important that he devours more in order to maintain his power.
* Shadow Fiend from VideoGame/{{Dota2}} take souls to power his attack through ''Necromastery'' and release an unholy surge of energy through ''Requiem of Souls''.
-->"So, you're curious where I come from? There's one easy way to find out for yourself."
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'': Servants can do this to replenish their {{Mana}}, though the more wholesome ones are understandably quite averse to it. In [[LightNovel/FateApocrypha one]] [[JackTheRipper case]], the Servant -- a ChaoticEvil AntiVillain -- expressed a preference for ''evil'' souls, because their foulness makes them that much tastier, and souls of similar alignment are easier to digest.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:WesternAnimation]]
* On ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', the guys watch a [[TheresNoBInMovie horror movie]] about a "cannibal ghost", who "scares you to death and eats your ghost".
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