Eating someone else's lunch to taunt or intimidate them in Live-Action Films.
- In 2 Fast 2 Furious, agent Markham thinks Brian and Roman are running from their undercover operation to make a break for freedom, instead of that they're doing an audition for the crime lord they're tracking, and nearly blows their cover. When tempers get heated afterward, Roman begins stalking around and decides to vent his frustration by swiping Markham's lunch right in front of him.Markham: Hey! That's mine!
Roman: [angrily] So?!
[cut to everyone going over the operation while Roman silently eats in the background] - In The Accountant (2016), Living Robotics's CFO, Chilton, heads downstairs for a midnight snack, only to find Braxton in his kitchen, having his lemon meringue pie, along with a glass of milk. After serving Chilton another slice, Braxton gives the completely cowed man two options for how he can be killed: an "accidental" insulin overdose, or a faked home invasion that will also have to include Chilton's sleeping wife.
- Aravt: The big action sequence at the end is a brutal, bloody fight between the "aravt" (a ten-man squad of Mongol warriors) and the warriors of the Khulin, a rival tribe. One of the aravt takes a moment in the middle of the bloody mayhem, picks a joint of meant off of a Khulin fire, and takes a big bite. Then he drops the meat, spins around, and kills a guy.
- In the Disney Channel Original Movie Brink!, the main characters find this happening to them all the time. They get revenge, though - they stuff a sandwich full of worms, and when the big bad eats it, he gets a nice mouthful of the little wigglers. Revenge is a dish best served...with worms.
- Inverted in Congo, when Captain Wanta demands the protagonists have some coffee and cake, then makes it clear who's top dog by ordering Tim Curry to STOP EATING MY SESAME CAKE!
- In D3: The Mighty Ducks, the Jerk Jock varsity players repeatedly steal the Ducks' lunches—until Charlie, Fulton, and Russ exact some payback with a decoy lunch bag filled with horse crap.
- When The Joker crashes Bruce Wayne's party in The Dark Knight, he helps himself to a shrimp kebab and then grabs a glass of champagne from a guest, tossing most of it out and drinking the rest with great gusto before replacing it on a stack of wine flutes.
- In The Gentlemen, Ray arrives home to find Fletcher waiting for him, and casually drinking his 150 year old scotch. Later during their very strange interaction, Fletcher asks Ray to cook a steak for him.
- A variation is done halfway through the Death Note Series. L goes to meet Light with the same kind of potato chip bag Light had used earlier to hide a piece of his Death Note. He then eats out of it in front of him as a way of letting him know he's a suspect.
- Detention:
- Sander Sanderson’s first moments onscreen have him stealing pop, candy, and urinal cake from other people, having mistaken the final item for candy, only to wash his mistake down with the stolen pop.
- Downplayed and Defied when Clapton Davis attempts to help himself to Principal Karl Verge's Skittle jar, but, seeing the gesture as blatant disrespect on the part of his least favourite student, the latter denies Clapton access.
- The Devil and Daniel Webster: After taunting Jabez Stone for attempting to break their contract, Scratch flees from the approaching Ma Stone; taking a bunch of Stone's carrots with him.
- Dumb and Dumber: The main characters get pulled over by a cop who thinks they've been drunk driving and decides to intimidate them by making them give him one of their beer bottles. Unfortunately for him, the bottle they gave him was just used as a Jar Potty.Lloyd: Tic-tac, sir?
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Angel Eyes invites himself to his victim's lunch table and pretends to have a friendly conversation while eating his food, then kills the man and his family after getting the information he needs.
- Near the beginning of Inglourious Basterds, Nazi colonel Landa invites himself into Lapadite's home to "share" a drink of milk and a smoke, and casually chat about his "Jew hunting". His power in occupied France makes their own home a prison, as he casually eats while intimidating the host family, before eventually having his troops surrounding the place shoot anywhere any Jewish people may be hiding.
- In Jurassic World, Hoskins reaches across Lowery's workspace and takes his soda and remarks "The fox is in the henhouse!" as the I. Rex rampages. Lowery looks annoyed but doesn't (or can't) do anything about it.
- In Kelly's Heroes, the American general scoffs at his German counterpart, boasting that he's operating out of his opponent's former headquarters, eating his dinner, drinking his Scotch, and even has one of his counterpart's women around the place.
- Life (1999): An enormous inmate asks the pair, "You gon' eat yo' cornbread!?" in a way that makes it clear that no, they certainly aren't going to be eating their cornbread.
- An example from Machete: after capturing the priest, Booth helps himself to sacramental wine and sarcastically remarks that "God's blood tastes like Merlot".
- Marvel Cinematic Universe:
- In Captain America: The First Avenger Colonel Phillips brings an imprisoned Arnim Zola a relatively fancy steak meal whilst trying to get him to release information on the Red Skull's plans. After Zola reveals that he is a vegetarian (possibly as an excuse because he suspects it's poisoned), Phillips, not wanting to waste a prime cut, proceeds to eat Zola's lunch, and only then threatens him with Captain America.
- In Captain Marvel (2019), Talos infiltrates the Rambeau household, and after announcing his presence to Carol, Maria, and Fury, he helps himself to a soft drink in a red and white striped cup, taking a sip from the straw. This is an Actor Allusion to Samuel L. Jackson, who plays Fury here and whose character in Pulp Fiction does the same with another character's soda. Thankfully, Talos turns out to be a good guy.
- In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, after being repeatedly denied a fruit by her captors claiming it wasn't ripe, Nebula breaks out, sides with the Ravagers to capture the Guardians, and in a power move, proceeds to take a bite out of the fruit she was denied earlier. Then comedically spits it out because the Guardians weren't kidding when they told her it wasn't ripe.
- In Black Widow (2021), the two guards in the mail room in the Russian prison mockingly eat a cake one of Alexei's fans had sent him when Alexei comes to collect his mail: even telling him to tell his fans to use more butter next time. They soon regret this.
- In Men in Black II, Serleena interrogates the pizza parlor owner actually the alien protecting Laura, the Light of Zartha for the location of the Light of Zartha. When he remains Defiant to the End, she kills him. Then she takes a pizza to go.
- Played with in Murder on the Orient Express (2017). Ratchett, whom Poirot has already pegged as a nasty individual, sits down at Poirot's table and tries to make small talk as a preliminary to hiring him as a bodyguard. Poirot, who's shown earlier to have a love of good food, only agrees if he can share his desert.
- In Le Professionnel, French Rogue Agent Josselin Beaumont (Jean-Paul Belmondo) soaks a croissant in the coffee of Dirty Cop Farges in a bar the morning after the torture of Beaumont's wife by Farges and his boss Rosen, then punches him several times. Upon leaving, Beaumont tells the bartender/baker that the croissant is "for [his] friend" (Farges).
- The most defining example is probably the one in Pulp Fiction: When Jules and Vincent bust into the preppies' hideout, Jules asks Brett — in a way that really isn't asking at all—if he can sample his burger. Jules also offers Vincent a bite of Brett's burger, and just tosses it back on the table before he "requests" a sip of his Sprite, and drinks the whole thing while glaring defiantly at Brett the whole time. Even the way he asks "What's in this?" for the drink is done with a Menacing Hand Shot, and he intentionally makes his voice deeper while asking, to amp up the threat.
- Happens in Hitchcock's film adaptation of Rebecca. During his blackmail attempt, Smug Snake Jack Favell helps himself to a chicken leg from his opponents' picnic basket.
- Variation in Robocop 1987: During tense negotiations with a rival gang leader Clarence Boddicker dips his fingers in his wine glass, pretty much to show he can get away with it.
- Happens in Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, after Christie covers Michele's back with magnets and takes Romy's burger. Funnily enough, the titular girls don't realise this is a power play at first.
- Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird: At the Sleaze Brothers' Funfair, Sam eats an apple from the lunchbox of a little boy riding the ferris wheel, who is not happy with him when he finds out about it. Near the end of the film, the Sleaze Brothers get arrested by the State Trooper, and one of their criminal charges was stealing an apple from a kid.
- Discussed in There Will Be Blood, where Daniel Plainview famously uses the analogy of using a long straw to drink someone else's milkshake as an analogy for how he rendered his bitter rival's land worthless by drilling all the oil out of it from his own property.
- Played straight in the scene in the restaurant when Daniel reasserts his dominance over his competitors, who he had previously tried to strike a deal with over the pipeline before they insinuated he was an unfit father which caused him to abruptly terminate the potential partnership as well as outright threatening their lives, by walking over to their table and calling them out at full volume before stealing one of their drinks and knocking it back right in front of them.
- Tit for Tat: Laurel and Hardy steal and eat a marshmallow from their neighbor's grocery store every time they went inside to inflict some sort of revenge on him in their Escalating War. Hilarity Ensues when the marshmallows get spiked with alum.
- Under Ten Flags. Admiral Russell mentions that the German commerce raider they are hunting has stolen supplies from a British outpost and so the crew are now gorging themselves on Royal Navy rations. The man he's talking to expresses his sympathy...for the Germans.
- In Yellowbeard, the eponymous pirate has a habit of snatching food off people he is passing and eating it.
