Im A Humanitarian / Fan Works

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• All Assorted Animorphs AUs: Invoked in “What if Jake was stuck in morph?”; with Jake permanently stuck as a tiger, he needs a great deal of sustenance, and Marco privately notes that he can recall a few cases where they’ve left dead Taxxon, Hork-Bajir or even humans behind after battles in the woods. When Jake is sick, he talks about how eating humans is disgusting because of the shampoo and other chemicals, but Marco and Tobias (who were taking him to Tobias’s house to rest) each agree that they will never bring that up later.
• In The Butcher Bird, both the main character, Kaneki and his 'brother' C are ghouls, and thus have to eat human flesh to survive. The former despises it, while the latter sees humans not part of his crew as prey. It later comes to light that an entire ghoul species exists, all of whom share this practice. Grigori Vinci eventually manages to cure the Horror Hunger responsible for this, in addition to previously uncovering viable substitutes. Even so, the cure only allows a ghoul to eat normal food, and they can and do still resort to the original trope if they need raw material for their Healing Factor.
• Child of the Storm has the canonical example of Victor Creed a.k.a. Sabretooth show up in the sequel, luring Bucky away and revealing he's murdered a young wizard because he was "bored" and "hungry", as well as making reference to thinking Carol looked "very tasty" - though Bucky suggests that Creed was just trying to provoke him. After Bucky beats him to a pulp, snapping his neck and skewering him through the stomach with a metal railing specifically to ensure that the waste would poison him and slow his Healing Factor, he's dragged to Avengers Mansion to find out what he knows - whereupon he gives baby Ada Stark a significant look, the threat clear. Cue Loki blinding him and demonstrating that Creed is a very long way out of his depth.
• Ron in Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash, apparently. One of the first, and most oft-quoted sentences is: "He saw Harry and immediately began to eat Hermione's family." Harry is later seen dipping Hermione in hot sauce, "hungrier than ever". He's at it again in the sequel Harry Potter and the Rest of the Sentence, taking "a deep bite out of Hermione's head".
• Many members of the dezban species (post Great War) feast on the flesh of their fallen soldiers, comrades that have antagonized them, and their enemies in the Mass Effect fanfic The Council Era.
• Being a Snake Person, the titular character of The Tale of Solaron has shades of this. While he hasn't eaten anyone yet, he often responds to the obnoxious rogue by threatening to eat him. Fans of the story speculate that Solaron is entirely capable of swallowing a full-grown human whole.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • While the characters aren't human, anyone who knows about My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic knows about Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles), even if they never read it. The titular cupcakes have ponies that an insane Pinkie tortured to death in her basement as an ingredient.
  • Likewise in Fallout: Equestria, the ponies of Arbu turn out to be cannibals. After finding out, Littlepip doesn't take it well.
  • In another example, Pages Of Harmony, Rainbow Dash becomes a self-cannibal when her sense of loyalty is completely warped as a result of Twilight extracting her Element. She also takes a bite out of Pinkie's hoof in their Afterlife Antechamber to emphasize the fact that they can still feel pain.
  • General Esteem from The Immortal Game is a hardcore Social Darwinist to such a degree that he considers anyone or anything weaker than himself to be nothing but food. Including baby dragons. ^note Or so he claims.
• The Last of Us Series (Once Upon a Time, The Last of Us): Robin is the leader of a group of cannibals and regularly has his men go out looking for any survivors to eat.
• In Left Behind, the last Xarai, Belima, has to be ‘taught’ to get over her attitude towards this, Crichton making it clear to her that D’Argo’s corpse isn’t food and the crew needing to take time to re-affirm that eating Pilot’s arms isn’t acceptable behaviour once they can provide her with alternative sources of food.
• In the Robotech fanfic Marque and Reprisal, the main characters encounter a band of cannibals in the Sudd (a swamp along the Nile River in eastern Africa)
• Null Metal Alchemist plays with this, with Ed Elric declaring his intention to eat various characters, either to claim their powers for himself (like Father Cornello in Liore) or as a form of revenge (Shou Tucker). As of Episode 9, he hasn't actually eaten anyone.
• The monitor lizards from What Lies Beyond the Walls. Nearly all of them feast on other beasts for food, and some of them (such as Ulwort) will go as far as eating other monitor lizards just because they can.
• In Hivefled, it's mentioned that baby trolls hatch in batches of millions at a time and if they all survived the planet would be stripped bare, so they've become a staple food source for older trolls. Adult trolls also aren't too bothered about eating each other.
• Queen of Shadows: General Tsume and his tribe enjoy eating human slaves (a little too much in the opinions of the other Oni), and Tsume himself is apparently not above eating other Shadowkhan (but only with the permission of the Queen).
• In the Monsters, Inc. fan fiction Monstrous: Suel hunts humans for their fear because that's what he eats, but he eats them because it's fun.
• Young Justice: Darkness Falls: King Shark is unapologetically a cannibal. Then again, being an underwater humanoid, his cases aren't quite the same, though since he ate atlanteans, it still counts. His cannibalism is actually responsible for the reason why we never saw Ocean Master in season 2.
• From Another Note, Beyond Birthday has this reputation among the fandom, probably because In-Universe he took his second-to- last victim's left arm away from the crime scene for unknown reasons. (The story itself never says he isn't a cannibal, but it never says that he is, either.)
• Ashley McFly/Leather Ashes appears at the end of episode 48 of Pretty Cure Perfume Preppy, chowing down on a bit of one of her victims' corpses.
• In An Extraordinary Journey, when the SGC find some of the survivors of the Colonial ships abandoned by the Pegasus, the remaining crew have been forced to start eating each other out of a lack of food.
• The vocaloid fanfic Rotting Camellias features Kaito, who is very much implied to be a cannibal. He has sharp teeth, and his cage is often littered with unidentifiable bones and meat. He launches himself at anyone who gets to close, and there are a few comments about him biting people.
• Children of an Elder God features The Deep Ones, a race of man-eating Fish People.
• In the Adopted Displaced story, Dressed To Steal, this is revealed to be what Clockwerk did to Sly's father.
• In the Kim Possible fanfic Dead Man Switch, the Lorwardians don't just behead 15 teenage girls each year, they also feast on their headless bodies.
• In The Undertale fic On The Edge Of A Knife, Dr. Gaster shows Wander and Sara a glimpse of what the Chosen are like. One woman, the Yellow Chosen, casually bites and eats the head of a young child who brought her a serving of food mere seconds after she ate the offering. From the way the others around her react in dragging the headless body away, this was not new.
• In the YouTube channel Autistic Communist, Natsuki becomes one in the appropriately mentioned video "Natsuki becomes a cannibal." After being made to go without food for three days by her father, Natsuki lures MC into the closet of the literature club, kills and cannibalizes his left thigh after cooking it, and also kills her father with the same knife.
  • Drechenaux takes a similar approach to Autistic Communist's video, but in this version, she is interested in keeping Yuri alive so she could use her as her own personal cow for years.
• This is used non-maliciously in Little Fires. It's mentioned that mother cats will eat their young in cases of extreme stress. This is seen sympathetically by other Clan cats and they don't scorn the mother for cannibalism.
• Harbinger (Danny Phantom, ParaNorman): In this universe, the Lunch Lady was a human lunch lady by the name of Rhody O'Brian, who killed several students and fed them to the others as "mystery meat", and was caught chewing on an arm when they figured out what she was doing. When she's summoned back, the group has to stop her from cooking the school janitor.
• In Coveralls, Mulder likes eating human flesh.
• In Heritage of the Wolf, Devil, Wilson, and Cookie try to rape and kill Jenna. They threaten to cannibalize her as well.
• Jimmy Neutron Happy Family Happy Hour: In the Christmas video, after killing Ebenezer Wheezer, Hugh Neutron bakes his head into a fruitcake for Christmas dinner.
• Blackened Skies: While his fellow students are disgusted by the execution-themed dishes offered at the 'Death Row Delights' kiosk, Korekiyo happily samples the 'Shinguji Stew', commenting that other than being awfully salty, it isn't that bad. He also attempts to reassure them by noting that, while human flesh lacks a particularly distinct taste, he doesn't believe there to be any present in the dish. Naturally, Kaede questions how he knows what human flesh tastes like. Korekiyo refuses to answer.
• In the When the Wind Blows fanfic When the Wind Blows Alternate Ending, after Jim and Hilda survive the dropping of the bomb, their food rations are depleted and they are forced to consume the bodies of a family that was scorched by the blast.
• Between the Lines (MrQuestionMark): Chapter 41: The Silent Screams: Cannibalism was part of Othinus's Infinite Hells:
  [...] he had seen the world descend into nothing more than a cannibalistic hell where his own family had not been saved.
• Dungeon Keeper Ami: From "Catastrophic Failure, Part 2": As a last resort food:
  "This would be so much easier if those fools just caved in to my imminently reasonable demands, but no! They prefer me killing them and turning to cannibalism." He shook his head slowly, making disappointed noises.
• The Boy Who Cried Idiot: In Lincoln's nightmare, a giant Martin swallows him.
• It's Always Spooky Month:
  • When talking about using a Ouija board to contact something spooky, Skid mentions they once spoke to the ghost of a serial killer who ate his victim's livers.
  • Due to believing they are also monsters, Monster feeds Skid and Pump cooked human. They don't mind. This is referenced in chapter 14, where after realizing Skid and Pump are human, Monster then realizes he's unknowingly made them into cannibals and takes human meat out of their diet.
• In OSMU: Fanfiction Friction, The Morrigan, a Fortune Teller that Omar meets on the island of Hy-Brasil, reveals that she eats humans. However, the hearts of the humans she eats must be full of despair and not purity, as eating a pure heart is essentially the same as eating poison. She doesn't eat Omar (although she's portrayed as malicious at first), but does express interest in eating Orla, Opal and Oswald if they end up dying on the island.
• Rare heroic example in the Alternate Tail Series, during Gajeel's fight against the Iron God Slayer Damascus. When she has him in a Neck Lift, she is distracted by Makarov long enough for Gajeel to bite her hand off clear off, then devour it whole. He then fuse her God Slayer Iron that covered her hand with his own Dragon Slayer Iron, giving him a winning edge agaunst her.
• NOM! >:3: Adrienne, to keep herself from starving from her model diet and to make Lila pay for bullying Marinette, kills the liar and stuff the girl's body in her private fridge to have an emergency supply of food.
• Referenced in A Spicy Mix-Up; Nozomi believes that Yui murdered Rosemary and made stuffing with his remains. Kokone clarifies to her that Yui meant the spice rosemary, and that Rosemary the person is fine.

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