History Main / SpacetimeEater

For this type of being, sustenance goes well beyond organic matter--or any kind of matter, [[IncrediblyLamePun for that matter]]. More dangerous than a HordeOfAlienLocusts and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent those who feed on blood]], LifeEnergy, or even {{planet|Eater}}s, what it eats does not even exist tangibly, for it feeds on ''existence itself''. Such individuals often are {{Eldritch Abomination}}s or display ThePowerOfTheVoid.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', this is revealed to be [[spoiler:YOU. More specifically, the effect the player has on the world by [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall saving and loading their game]]]].
-->'''[[spoiler:Sans:]]''' ''Our reports showed a massive anomaly in the spacetime continuum. Timelines jumping left and right, stopping and starting... until suddenly, everything ends. Heh heh heh... That's your fault, isn't it?''

* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': At the end of the Future Trunks Saga, thanks to his CompleteImmortality, [[spoiler:[[BigBad Zamasu's]] spirit fuses with TheMultiverse itself, creating an AxCrazy GeniusLoci, and forcing Goku to SummonBiggerFish in the form of [[TopGod Grand Zeno]] to erase the whole thing to stop it from infecting the main timeline as well]].

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* UsefulNotes/BlackHoles, while not alive, are so dense and massive that ''spacetime itself'' is distorted in an infinite curvature, resulting in a gravitational pull that consumes ''everything'', even light.
** In such a place, gravity is so strong that several laws of physics are either bent or outright ''broken''. It's not entirely inaccurate to call them holes in reality itself.
* A [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum#Vacuum_metastability_event Vacuum metastability event]], also not alive, would fit the bill quite well too. The thing would expand at the speed of light devouring the entire Universe and once within it changing the laws of physics and the physical constants... just to have everything collapsing inmediately in a gravitational singularity.
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* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': At the end of the Future Trunks Saga, thanks to his CompleteImmortality [[spoiler:[[BigBad Zamasu's]] spirit fuses with TheMultiverse itself, creating an AxCrazy GeniusLoci, and forcing Goku to SummonBiggerFish in the form of [[TopGod Grand Zeno]] to erase the whole thing to stop it from infecting the main timeline as well]].
* ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'': The Denizens of the Crimson World are monsters from another world who consume the "power of existence" of humans. If they eat your power of existence, you're RetGone'd from reality. Interestingly, the majority of the cast are such [[HumanoidAbomination monsters]], and a significant number of them try to find a way to get around their morally-indefensible diet. [[spoiler:They eventually find a way, thanks to Snake!Yuuji.]]

* ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' introduces Mandrakk the Dark Monitor. A normal [[TheWatcher Monitor]] corrupted into a vampiric being that feeds on the Bleed, the dimension between realities that separates and defines them.

* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': The Black Winter is a cosmic entity that does to entire universes what Galactus does to planets.

* In ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'', Makarov absorbs other beings, which causes them to be {{Ret Gone}}d. The author describes him as an "Existence Vampire".

* In the MagicalGirl CrisisCrossover ''Fanfic/ShatteredSkiesTheMorningLights'', [[spoiler:[[BigBad Joker]] unleashes one of these upon the [[Anime/PrettyCure Precure universe]]. [[NoNameGiven "The entity"]] consumes and [[RetGone ret-gones]] every Precure continuity after [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Go Princess]], and manages to consume all possible futures from the remaining ten continuities before it's finally stopped. It leaves a catastrophic TimeCrash in its wake.]]

* ''Film/TheNeverendingStory''. The Nothing is consuming the land of Fantasia. If it isn't stopped, Fantasia will be destroyed.

* Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheLangoliers'' had an airliner fly through a "time rip", landing at an airport with all its passengers but ten disappeared. The ten passengers, who were all sleeping during the passage through the rift, were all stuck in time such that time did not move forward (although they could move within that frame). Eventually, they saw mysterious ball-like creatures with sharp gnashing teeth literally "eating" the surrounding existence itself, approaching them....

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster "The Time Monster"]], the Master attempted to control a powerful being called Kronos, whom the Doctor referred to as a Chronovore, or time-eater.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'': The entrope is an artificial lifeform created by the doomguard, a powerful philosphical faction in the setting which believes in the inevitability of death and decay. It posseses the capacity to consume planar barriers, the results of which can be very dangerous due to the majority of such organisms being located in the [[ElementalPlane Inner Planes]].

* Unicron from the Franchise/{{Transformers}} eats universes. In every continuity he's the same individual, at some different point in his existence. Some universes he devours, others are saved from him, and he's shunted to the next one to begin the cycle anew. According to the Transtech Cybertronians, Unicron has succesfully terminated 1,176,325 universes so far (out of 15,962,782 catalogued by them).

-->I am matter... I am antimatter... I can see your past... I can see your future... I consume time... And I will consume you!
* ''VideoGame/GreyGoo2015'' has The Silence. Little is known about it- but it's capable of consuming literally everything it touches and leaving behind nothing but darkness. That black mass of empty space in the sky at night where there's a gap in the stars? That's The Silence. It eats light, sound, and, well, pretty much everything.
* ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' has the Time Devourer, the main antagonist of the game and [[spoiler:the fusion of Lavos and Schala from the previous game.]]

** ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'' has the Time Eater, a creature that eats holes in space and time and throws Sonic into places he's been to before (Including [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 one]] that he has visited before, [[CosmicRetcon but also technically didn't and probably shouldn't be able to return to]]). [[spoiler:It turns out that it's an EnergyBeing that Eggman and his past self turned into a cyborg-mech-abomination.]]

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'': [[BigBad Alduin the World-Eater]], whose raison d'etre is to devour the universe at the end of time to make way for the next world. [[spoiler:In the current one, according to some theories he jumped the gun: it wasn't time for the world to end, which was why first the Tongues, then the Dragonborn were able to defeat him.]] He also seems less interested in destroying the universe and more interested in ''ruling'' it.

* In ''VideoGame/TastyPlanet'', in the last level you eat "Time Itself". When even this is eaten and there's absolutely nothing left, [[spoiler: you implode and become the next Big Bang.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', this is revealed to be [[spoiler: YOU. More specifically, the effect the player has on the world by [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall saving and loading their game.]]]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Sans:''']] ''Our reports showed a massive anomaly in the spacetime continuum. Timelines jumping left and right, stopping and starting ... until suddenly, everything ends. Heh heh heh … That's your fault, isn't it?''
* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' has the non-canon "Dark Star" skins for several champions that are built off this concept, turning them into {{Cosmic Entit|y}}ies who annihilate and feast off entire galaxies at a time. The line is codified by [[OmnicidalManiac Dark Star Thresh]], an AnthropomorphicPersonification of a black hole who believes time is a cog in a dying machine, and is already responsible for [[ApocalypseHow the cessation of multiple]] ''[[ApocalypseHow realities]]'' by the time he hits Runeterra.

--->'''Captain''': Maybe there's something else we could feed these things?\\
'''Xraki''': har/joke/har. you plan plot/scheme/trap. plot/scheme/trap is also order/information. gluttonous eyes feed/consume

* The [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Anti-Monitor]] of Franchise/TheDCU destroys and absorbs the energies of many universes to become stronger. The instability of the few universes eventually causes the creation of the pre-ComicBook/{{New 52}} New Earth.
* Later DC comic crisis stories introduce Mandrakk the Dark Monitor. A normal [[TheWatcher Monitor]] corrupted into a vampiric being that feeds on the Bleed, the dimension between realities that separates and defines them.

* While [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Unicron]] ''appears'' to be a "mere" PlanetEater, he actually feeds off of existence itself in his bid to [[OmnicidalManiac eliminate all of reality]] and be truly alone. The dark god has already devoured more than a fifth of the multiverse. He actually managed to devour all of creation at one point, but it was re-created while he slept.

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* ''FanFic/BlackQueenRedKing'' has one in the form of Oblivion. Discord claims that Oblivion was created to consume all of reality itself.

* In the MagicalGirl CrisisCrossover ''FanFic/ShatteredSkiesTheMorningLights'', [[spoiler:[[BigBad Joker]] unleashes one of these upon the [[Anime/PrettyCure Precure universe]]. [[NoNameGiven "The entity"]] consumes and [[RetGone ret-gones]] every Precure continuity after [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Go Princess]], and manages to consume all possible futures from the remaining ten continuities before it's finally stopped. It leaves a catastrophic TimeCrash in its wake.]]

* In the MagicalGirl CrisisCrossover ''FanFic/ShatteredSkiesTheMorningLights'', [[spoiler:[[BigBad Joker]] unleashes one of these upon the [[Franchise/PrettyCure Precure universe]]. [[NoNameGiven "The entity"]] consumes and [[RetGone ret-gones]] every Precure continuity after [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Go Princess]], and manages to consume all possible futures from the remaining ten continuities before it's finally stopped. It leaves a catastrophic TimeCrash in its wake.]]

For this type of being, sustenance goes well beyond organic matter--or any kind of matter, [[IncrediblyLamePun for that matter]]. More dangerous than Alien Locusts and those who feed on blood, LifeEnergy, or {{planet|Eater}}s, what it eats does not even exist tangibly, for it feeds on ''existence itself''. Such individuals often are {{Eldritch Abomination}}s or display ThePowerOfTheVoid.

* While [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Unicron]] ''appears'' to be a "mere" PlanetEater, he actually feeds off of existence itself in his bid to [[OmnicidalManiac eliminate all of reality]] and be truly alone. The dark god has already devoured more than a fifth of the multiverse. He actually managed to devour all of creation one point, but it was re-created while he slept.

* While [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Unicron]] ''appears'' to be a "mere" PlanetEater, he actually feeds off of existence itself in his bid to [[OmnicidalManiac eliminate all of reality]] and be truly alone. The dark god has already devoured more than a fifth of the multiverse. He actually managed to devour all creation once, but it grew back while he slept.

* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': At the end of the Future Trunks Saga, [[spoiler:the BigBad's spirit [[AssPull somehow]] possesses TheMultiverse itself, creating an AxCrazy GeniusLoci -- and forcing Goku to SummonBiggerFish in the form of a certain TopGod]].

'''Xraki''': you plan plot/scheme/trap plot/scheme/trap is also order/information gluttonous eyes feed/consume

* ''VideoGame/StarControlOrigins'': The {{Greater Scope Villain}}s of the game are beings only referred to as the Gluttonous Eyes. They are extra-universal entities that somehow consume ''information'' and spread chaos in their wake. How exactly someone is supposed to fight or resist such entities is unclear:

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* From AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho the Neverpeople, who consume time, erasing people from existence and almost destroying the Web of Time. Then Zagreus, the personification of [[EldritchAbomination Anti-Time]], who could destroy the Universe if released.
** [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoDOTD11TheTimeMachine The Time Machine]] has the Creevix, InsectoidAliens who are the [[TimeMaster masters of time]] from the next universe along. They consume potential future and in an AlternateTimeline consumed the Universe after entering on 23 November 2013. With a massive TimeyWimeyBall the Eleventh Doctor influences his previous selves to stop their plan.

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* ''Series/DoctorWho''; in the Creator/JonPertwee arc "The Time Monster", the Master attempted to control a powerful being called Kronos, whom the Doctor referred to as a Chronovore, or time-eater.

** ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'' has the Time Eater, a creature that eats holes in space and time and throws Sonic into places he's been to before (and [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 one]] [[CosmicRetcon which he hasn't and probably shouldn't be able to]]). [[spoiler:It turns out that it's an EnergyBeing that Eggman and his past self turned into a cyborg-mech-abomination.]]

* Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog has two:

* The BiggerBad of ''Literature/TheAtrocityArchive'' is [[spoiler:an infovore, an extrauniversal intelligence that feeds on quantum information, causing the AlternateUniverse it was summoned into to gradually collapse]].

* ''Manga/EdensZero'': The Chronophage is an EldritchAbomination that feasts on the time of planets, which reverts them to an earlier state depending on how much time is eaten, ranging from decades to millennia. This essentially overwrites a planet's present existence and history with its own past, creating an AlternateTimeline separate from the rest of the universe. What's more is that those who manage to escape the planet will not only avoid getting overwritten themselves, but also won't be affected by whatever changes may occur to their past selves, thus allowing two versions of the same people to co-exist free of any {{Temporal Paradox}}es. Conversely, anyone left behind who wasn't there in the past will be [[RetGone erased from existence]].

* ''Manga/EdensZero'': The Chronophage is an EldritchAbomination that feasts on the time of planets, reverting them to an earlier state depending on how much time is eaten, which ranges from decades to millennia. This essentially overwrites a planet's present existence and history with its own past, creating an AlternateTimeline separate from the rest of the universe. What's more is that those who manage to escape the planet will not only avoid getting overwritten themselves, but also won't be affected by whatever changes may occur to their past selves, thus allowing two versions of the same people to co-exist without any {{Temporal Paradox}}es. Conversely, anyone left behind who wasn't there in the past will be [[RetGone erased from existence]].

* ''Manga/EdensZero'': The Chronophage is an EldritchAbomination that feasts on the time of planets, which reverts them to an earlier state depending on how much time is eaten, ranging from decades to millennia. This essentially overwrites a planet's present existence and history with its own past, creating an AlternateTimeline separate from the rest of the universe. What's more is that those who manage to escape the planet will not only avoid getting overwritten themselves, but also won't be affected by whatever changes may occur to their past selves, thus allowing two versions of the same people to co-exist without any {{Temporal Paradox}}es. Conversely, anyone left behind who wasn't there in the past will be [[RetGone erased from existence]].

* ''Manga/EdensZero'': The Chronophage is an EldritchAbomination that feasts on the time of planets, which reverts them to an earlier state depending on how much time is eaten, ranging from decades to millennia. This essentially overwrites a planet's present existence and history with its own past, creating an AlternateTimeline separate from the rest of the universe. What's more is that those who manage to escape the planet will not only avoid getting overwritten themselves, but also won't be affected by whatever changes may occur to their past selves, thus allowing two versions of the same people to co-exist without any {{Temporal Paradox}}es. Conversely, anyone who stays behind will be [[RetGone erased from existence]] if a version of them wasn't already on the planet at that point in time.

* ''Manga/EdensZero'': The Chronophage, or Time Eater, is an EldritchAbomination that feasts on the time of planets, which reverts them to an earlier state depending on how much time is eaten. This essentially means overwriting a planet's present existence and history with its own past, creating an AlternateTimeline separate from the rest of the universe. What's more is that those who manage to escape the planet will not only avoid getting overwritten themselves, but also won't be affected by whatever changes may occur to their past selves, thus allowing two versions of the same people to co-exist without any {{Temporal Paradox}}es.