Basic Trope: Characters in video games heal by eating food.
- Straight: Whenever Bob is injured, he eats some food and his HP goes back up.
- Exaggerated:
- A potato chip fully heals Bob.
- Eating a hamburger causes Bob to level up.
- Food brings Bob Back from the Dead.
- Bob can eat 25 whales in 5 seconds to get more health.
- Eating more food than required gives Bob even more than his maximum health.
- Downplayed:
- Whenever Bob eats some food, his HP goes up... eventually.
- Bob can eat relatively cheap food outside of combat to heal, but has to rely on magical means in a fight.
- Eating food restores Bob's stamina, but he still needs medicine to treat actual injuries.
- Justified:
- The food itself was designed to be a healing agent.
- The food doesn't actually heal Bob, Bob is Made of Iron and eating food he likes increases his morale allowing him to continue fighting long after anyone else would have collapsed.
- Bob's Healing Factor is Cast from Calories
- Inverted:
- Food damages Bob.
- Bob heals himself by vomiting.
- Bob can spend health to produce food.
- Subverted: Bob attempts to eat something in the hope that this happens, but he is proved wrong.
- Double Subverted: ...But seconds later the food digests and he does get more health.
- Parodied:
- Adventurers spend their entire years scouring the lands for mysteriously-placed loafs of bread and milk in order to be safe for whatever adventures they go on.
- Mid-Battle Tea Break
- Bob is a cannibal, so he regains health by eating people, whether they're enemies he's beaten or harmless innocents.
- Ambulances rush injured patients to a restaurant instead of a hospital.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Food does not have any powers. Food is just food.
- Not only is food just food, eating it is a slow process like in real life.
- Enforced:
- The writer intends to spoof most RPG tropes and as such makes sure that he puts this in.
- The game is a loving pastiche of the old-school beat 'em up, chowing down on Inexplicably Preserved Dungeon Meat gets a Grandfather Clause.
- Lampshaded:
- "Food can heal people?!?!"
- You eat the APPLE and are refreshed for 10HP. Don't ask me how; You just are".
- Invoked: Bob makes sure to eat all food because he's played many games where such logic applies.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: "Careful now, make sure the food is normal. We don't want the hero I'm fighting to be able to heal himself halfway through our fight for the kingdom".
- Discussed: "I don't care what happens in your stupid games, food does not instantly heal you, Bob".
- Conversed: "In my game, the food always heals people for no reason..."
- Deconstructed: Food is a high-costing medicine that is only used by professionals and is inaccessible by the average man.
- Reconstructed: People realize they can grow food in their back yards.
- Played For Laughs: "Five bucks says Bob can't eat Jimmy's Buffet out of buisiness!" "No bet. I've seen him eat".
- Played For Drama: People are starving, and die of old age at 30, because their insanely fast metabolism strip-mines their food and saves none of it as fatty tissue.
- Implied: Bob gets badly scratched up during a fight, and mumbles about how he could really go for a snack.
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