Basic Trope: Someone gets hungry during a time it'd be inappropriate to do so, such as while witnessing something disgusting.
- Straight: While the Five-Man Band witnesses people who were killed by cannibals, everyone is thoroughly disgusted except for Archer, who remarks that he wants something to eat.
- Exaggerated: The Five-Man Band witnesses the most horrible things known to humanity, and are so disgusted they don't feel like eating ever again. Archer, for some reason, wants a five-course meal.
- Downplayed:
- The incident isn't necessarily disgusting, but still a time when Archer really shouldn't be hungry.
- Archer is clearly less hungry than usual, but he's the only one wiling to eat after the incident.
- Justified:
- Archer isn't easily disgusted.
- Archer is a Big Eater to begin with.
- Archer is the Token Non-Human, and for some reason, disgusting events actually make tiger-people hungrier.
- The disgusting incident really does remind Archer of food/eating.
- The disgusting incident triggered Archer's Wacky Cravings.
- Archer's long ignored hunger just happened to tip over at that moment.
- Archer eats to cope with stressful situations, even ones that would kill most people's appetites.
- Inverted: The Five-Man Band is in a scenario where they're supposed to be hungry, such as a large dinner, but Archer isn't hungry.
- Subverted: Archer is a notable Big Eater, and one of his teammates suggests he's still hungry. Archer then says no, even he isn't hungry now.
- Double Subverted: But then his stomach growls.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Nobody gets hungry during a time it'd be inappropriate.
- Enforced: To ease some tension in a disgusting scene.
- Lampshaded: "Of all the times to be hungry, Archer..."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Archer takes an appetite-suppressant pill because he knows excessive hunger might bother his teammates in this situation.
- Discussed: The rest of the Five-Man Band are even more grossed out at Archer's inappropriate hunger, and respond as such:Hiro: Ew, Archer! Couldn't you not air out your hunger after we just saw... Whatever THAT was!?Lance: Good fucking grief, Archer. Don't tell us you're still hungry, I feel like fucking puking!Hattie: Oh God, Archer, I'm not hungry. I just witnessed the most horrific thing we've ever seen, and I'm impressed at your guts... Or should I be horrified?Brianna: Okay, Archer, if you're so hungry, why don't you start eating that thing?
- Conversed: "How in the world is this character hungry at a time like this? I wasn't even here and I really don't feel like eating for the next several days."
- Implied: After the incident, Archer is the only one shown eating.
- Played for Drama: Archer has an eating disorder that leads him to binge-eat, and he doesn't get much sympathy from his disgusted teammates...leading him to eat even more.
- Played for Horror: This is the first sign that Archer is suffering Sanity Slippage and is about to kill and eat his former teammates.
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