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Child Eater
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In folklore, many different kinds of monsters kill and eat children and infants. Others merely make children seriously ill or cause them to vanish (replacing them with fairy changelings). These stories were explanations for the high infant mortality rates seen in primitive cultures. Naturally, various media use these tales as source material for their own monsters. Some media monsters target children to use them as a slave work-force. Some drain their Life Energy to stay alive. It is taken as a given that specifically targeting children, especially if you are planning on eating them, is a sure sign that you are a monster in the truest sense of the word. Differs from Eats Babies as this trope covers creatures who go after babies because they specifically target children, while Eats Babies is about villains so evil they would target babies but don't go out of their way to do so. By definition, though, most (but surprisingly not all) Child Eaters qualify for Eats Babies status. Given how long some of these stories have been around, this trope is Older Than Dirt. Related to Would Hurt a Child. Also see Eats Babies. God-Eating has a surprising amount of overlap, as gods try to eat younger gods. |
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The Far Side: One comic depicts two parents telling a stereotypical-looking Wicked Witch, "Now let me get this straight. We hired you to babysit the kids, and instead you cooked and ate them BOTH?" In The Prehistory of The Far Side, a retrospective book, cartoonist Gary Larson expresses particular pride at emphasizing the word "both". Another comic has a witch with a house made of brussel sprouts, frustrated that a rival witch's gingerbread house is attracting all the kids to eat. Another had a witch telling her friend she's pregnant, the other witch thought she was being literal when she said she "has one in the oven." |
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Kusaregedo from Samurai Shodown is a rather monstrous version of this. | |
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Donato Porpora from Tokyo Ghoul is a Ghoul famous for his preference for child victims. To this end, he established himself as a Sinister Minister and opened a Catholic Orphanage where the children lived happily with their beloved "Father". Then, one by one, the children would be "adopted"... and suffer brutal deaths before being eaten. He even went so far as to feed leftovers to the other children disguised as treats. Eventually, his favorite child, Kotarou Amon, discovered him eating another child and his secret was revealed. Because he couldn't bring himself to kill Amon, he ended up captured and remains an infamous Ghoul considered vile even by other Ghouls. | |
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Grand Fisher in the Bleach manga. In the anime version, he preyed on women. | |
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The opening Little Bad of Grave Peril was a ghost who was stuck in the same pattern of actions: trying to make her baby be quiet by singing and covering his mouth, so that her husband wouldn't lose his temper. She was haunting a hospital nursery and suffocating children. | |
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In the "Nightmare Cafeteria" part of Treehouse of Horror V, Springfield Elementary is suffering from both overcrowding in detention and food budget cuts. To solve both problems, the faculty starts eating the children one by one and sending the kids to "detention" for even minor infractions to process them as cattle. | |
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Angel: The season 2 episode "Judgement" has a demon in Lorne's karaoke bar who is announced as Durthok the Child-Eater. Another child-eating species pops up in early season 5. Angel kills it but later learns he was supposed to be meeting with it. The season 5 episode "Smile Time" involves demonic puppets that are sucking brain power from the children that watch their TV show. |
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In the Grimm episode "El Cuegle", the eponymous Wesen hunts down and kidnaps babies, intending to eat them at a specific ritual time. It turns out that El Cuegle get horrible visions of the future, and know these babies will grow up to be killers. The one in the episode hates what he does, but hates what happens if he doesn't even more. | |
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In Wes Craven's New Nightmare, Freddy Krueger tries to eat Heather's son Dylan alive before she stops him. | |
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The Simpsons: In the "Nightmare Cafeteria" part of Treehouse of Horror V, Springfield Elementary is suffering from both overcrowding in detention and food budget cuts. To solve both problems, the faculty starts eating the children one by one and sending the kids to "detention" for even minor infractions to process them as cattle. The Salem Witch trial parody in another Halloween episode had Marge and her sisters, being witches for the act, take up the Flanders idea that they would eat children. On their way out of the Flanders's house, Ned offers them candy instead, which they take and get from the other families, starting the tradition of Trick-or-Treating. Then they mention having already eaten several children before they reached the Flanders house. |
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The Beldam/Other Mother from Coraline lures children into her world, where she then "eats up their lives" (and their bodies, presumably). | |
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Lawbringer Qztr (and later on, Charon) attempts to kill baby Memi in Negation. They fail, because Memi has cosmic-level superpowers. | |
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In the French comic Raptors, the ancient leader of the new vampire order, Don Miguel Y Certa, who is also known as "The Devourer", has a particular fondness for children. | |
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Bruce Coville's Book of... Nightmares II: The title character of The Gravekeeper was hanged after a child disappeared and it was believed the old man had killed and eaten them. Since then, children have disappeared every year during the Harvest Moon, and local legend is that it's because he's still returning from the grave and cannibalizing them. | |
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In Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, one of the demons you may meet around is the above mentioned Hindu goddess Hariti - who, unfortunately, was once a vicious ogress with a serious case of these which the full moon threatens to bring back. Luckily, her friend Persephone is more than willing to give her a pomegranate, just so she won't be tempted to restart the habit. | |
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One Looney Tunes parody of Hansel and Gretel casts Witch Hazel as the witch; when Bugs Bunny calls her out on her plan to eat the two siblings, she mumbles, "Call it a weakness..." | |
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Cat's Eye By Stephen King: The Little Troll Monster sits on the little girl's chest and steals her breath. | |
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The norm rather than the exception in Crossed. One Crossed is even stated to wear babies as shoes, and the Homo Tortor arc has the hedonistic rulers of the titular human subspecies raise their child indulging his every whim from birth so as to enjoy his expression when they eat him alive. | |
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Alfred J. Kwak: Krabnagel the cat tries to eat both Alfred and Dolf when they are little. | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): In "Under the Bed", a boogeyman like monster steals children from their bedrooms to devour them. In "The Grell", many humans believe that the Grell eat humans, especially children, but this is only a myth. |
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The Diaries of the Family Dracul'': Many vampires will gladly feast upon infants and children as well as adults. | |
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In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Arf threatens to swallow the nine-year-old Nanoha whole to get her to stay out of Fate's way, though considering her later established personality (and the fact that Fate would never allow her familiar to commit such an act of cruelty) it was probably a bluff. | |
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The demon Astarte from Angel Sanctuary is infertile and wishes she could have children. As a way of coping, she swallows young girls who get lost in her brother's maze so that she can indulge in the fantasy of being pregnant. | |
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Harry Potter has Fenrir Greyback, a werewolf who tries to bite as many people as possible, particularly young children, even when he's not transformed. To make the child predator vibe even worse, he gets as close to children as he can before transforming. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin frequently has to deal with monsters that want to eat him. The monsters under the bed aren't much of a threat as they aren't very smart. In one of Calvin's nastier Daydream Surprises, his parents turn into bug-eyed aliens, dunk him in batter and try to make him into waffles. In another strip, Calvin imagines that the gross slop on his dinner plate comes to life and devours him. His parents celebrate his death by dancing. Another time his lunch bag comes to life at school and tries to eat him, but he kills it with his thermos. He also was once attacked by a baseball that suddenly spouted teeth while he was playing baseball with Hobbes. |
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The Dresden Files: The opening Little Bad of Grave Peril was a ghost who was stuck in the same pattern of actions: trying to make her baby be quiet by singing and covering his mouth, so that her husband wouldn't lose his temper. She was haunting a hospital nursery and suffocating children. In the first short story of the series (eventually published in the Side Jobs compilation), Harry has to save a runaway child from a Bridge Troll that eats children. It specifically mentions that under The Unseelie Accords, 'naughty' children who have run away are its (apparently only) legitimate prey. |
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Several such examples exist in the SCP Foundation universe, such as SCP-352 (who is based on the real-life legend of Baba Yaga), and SCP-5294. | |
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Supernatural: The episode "Something Wicked" features a Shtriga, which sucks life force from children, leaving them in comas. The demon Lilith likes to drink the blood of newborn babies. She even has a personal chef. |
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Quixoto ended up as Charby of Charby the Vampirate's sire due to his preference for eating children when he left his meal unfinished and Charby turned into a vampire before he came back to clean up. | |
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The Beldam/Other Mother from Coraline lures children into her world, where she proceeds to devour their bodies and lives. | |
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In the Land of Oz books, the Hungry tiger would like to be this. He is a massive Bengal tiger who is always hungry no matter how much he eats, and longs to eat a "fat baby," though he never would because his conscience will not allow him to do so. | |
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When Dracula made Lucy Westenra into a vampire, her preferred victims were children. Dracula also fed at least one baby to his wives. | |
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The froglike alien Tendu of The Color of Distance and Through Alien Eyes, have several life stages. In a case of Bizarre Alien Reproduction, early ones aren't very intelligent and not considered to be people. The first stage, the tadpole-like narey, feeds a lot of the wildlife. Eventually they metamorphize into the tinka, adult-shaped but smaller and not as smart. Tinka roam the jungles until they find Tendu villages, where they act as servants. They can age and die, or else get chosen by fully adult Tendu to go through another metamorphosis and become bami, who are intelligent and considered somewhere between children and apprentices. From there they potentially have two more metamorphoses. Bami and above, if female, can lay unfertilized eggs for animals to eat. It's seen as a common courtesy for a Tendu female, taking some narey from a pool to eat, to lay some eggs to feed the others. Dr. Juna Saari, a human stranded among the Tendu and taken in by them, is utterly horrified to learn that the narey, which she's been eating just like any of the other foods offered to her, are early-stage Tendu and it damages her ability to get along with the aliens for some time. One of her friends explains that they don't eat narey that have developed forelegs. Later, after reconnecting with humans again, Juna gets pregnant and plans to have her now-dear Tendu friends help her out as she isn't inclined to marry. The father, and quite a lot of Earth press, are against this and call the Tendu baby-eaters, which the aliens are indignant about. They understand quite well that there's a difference between a baby and a tadpole. |
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This is one possible theory as to why the Slender Man kidnaps children. | |
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Early in The Thebaid, a fiend from Hell slaughters the infants of Argos and eats their entrails to avenge the death of Apollo's son. It doesn't take long for the people get upset and kill the fiend as it wanders around sipping intestines from child corpses. | |
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In Exalted, the ancient and mad sorceress Raksi is known for feasting on babies. | |
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Scratch N' Sniff's Den of Doom: the eponymous Hyena hosts of this quiz show, which revolves around this trope, are said to round up and capture their contestants to play their "Deadly Game". The losers of this game are swiftly dropped into the hosts' cooking pot to be eaten for their dinner. This is implied to happen after every episode as each game has a guarantee of four losers and only one potential winner/fifth loser. | |
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Hop-o'-My-Thumb and his brothers, after being left to die in the forest and being unable to find their way back home, find a house where a kindly woman lets them in... but warns them to beware her husband who's a man-eating ogre with a fondness for children. It ends badly... for the ogre and his wife and their daughters, that is. | |
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No Rest for the Wicked: Saying anything would spoil the fuel. | |
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The witch in Hansel and Gretel planned to eat them. She even used a Gingerbread House as bait. | |
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Several Goosebumps villains, including King Jellyjam, the Beasts (when the loser of their game is a child), Cuddles the hamster, and Mr. Mortman. | |
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In Hocus Pocus the three witches must eat the souls of children to survive. To help them do this, they revive Winifred's dead lover as a zombie, played by Doug Jones. | |
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The animatronics in Willy's Wonderland had eaten numerous children in the past, as they contained the souls of Jerry Robert Willis and his followers. | |
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Alice from Balloon Kid is a little girl, even being depicted as a small baby in the Japanese art. If she flies too close to the water, a fish will leap out and grab her, bring her into the water, and eat her alive. | |
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Benny Rose, the Cannibal King: The main antagonist of the novel, Benny Rose has a special hunger for children. During the 50's, he ended up trapped with five kids in the basement of a hospital that caught fire and consumed them to stay alive, which caused him to become a supernatural entity of some kind. Now, every Halloween night, he strikes and feasts upon the trick-and-treaters who are filling the streets. | |
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In The Lord of the Rings, Gandalf mentions that during the hunt for Gollum, he heard tales of 'a blood-drinking creature' that crawled through open windows to empty cradles... yes, Gollum eats babies. | |
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The second episode of Black Cat Detective sees Black Cat and his crew dealing with an avian villain called the Monkey-Eating Eagle, who abducts several animal children and have them locked in cages before eventually feasting on them. The Eagle seemingly got his name from an infamous scene where he swallows a monkey child onscreen, though his victims also include rabbits, pandas, bears, squirrels and other children. | |
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Long Arms from Fatal Frame. In life, he was the father of a previous Virgin Sacrifice and tried to save his daughter. His disfigured spirit haunts the mansion, snatching away any children he encounters and killing them. | |
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In the first episode/movie of Lexx, the Cluster Lizards prove to be this. However, the kids they're eating happen to be the cream of the crop chosen by His Divine Shadow, so arguably this isn't such a bad thing in this case. | |
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In Darker than Black, one Contractor is required to drink the blood of small children in order to use her powers of Explosive Decompression. And the crazy part? She's The Woobie. Yes, really. She's The Woobie because she lost her powers (and with them, her emotionlessness) and is now horribly haunted by what she did. She never harms any children during the actual series, since she dies shortly after regaining her powers. |
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Masters of Horror: In the episode "The Washingtonians", a secret cannibal society known as 'the Washingtonians' price children as a meal. Their founder, George Washington himself, professed in his hidden diary that he skinned them and made utensils out of their bones as well. | |
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In The BFG, the evil giants seem to eat only human children. | |
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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "And the Children Shall Lead", the Gorgon orphans all of the children living on one planet because orphaned children are more easily influenced by parental figures... such as the "friendly angel", as the kids call the Gorgon. | |
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Homelander in The Boys receives blackmail photos of himself committing all manner of horrible crimes, including eating babies alive, even though he has no memories of the events. This eventually drives him to break down completely and becoming a full-blown villain, leading the various superhumans in an attempted coup against the U.S government. The photos are actually of Black Noir, in reality a clone of Homelander driven insane because he's unable to fulfill the purpose he was created for; destroying Homelander in case he became uncontrollable. Black Noir committed the crimes in hopes of giving Homelander a psychotic break so he'd be allowed to kill him. | |
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After his plan to become mayor of Gotham City is foiled by the Batman, The Penguin of Batman Returns goes after Gotham's first-born sons, planning to drown them in the sewer. He kills the one clown (Doug Jones again) who objects to the plan ("Killing sleeping children? Isn't that a little..." *BLAM!* "No! It's a LOT!"), but Batman stops the plan before it can get too far. | |
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Several Pokémon Pokédex entries suggest this is true of a few species: Drowzee's entry claims "It remembers every dream it eats. It rarely eats the dreams of adults because children’s are much tastier." Banette's entry says it is "a doll that became a Pokémon over its grudge from being junked. It seeks the child that disowned it." Maybe this is a story told to kids to make them appreciate gifts, but still... Drifloon might be a nasty one. Its entry says "It is whispered that any child who mistakes DRIFLOON for a balloon and holds on to it could wind up missing." Phantump's entry says ‘According to old tales, these Pokémon are stumps possessed by the spirits of children who died while lost in the forest." While that does not say it victimizes children, the other Pokémon who do suggest Phantump may be the victims of such Pokémon. Or victims of Pokémon in general, given how many kids are trainers. |
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The Dark Dragon God, Loputousu, and its current host in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War demand sacrifices of children ages 7 to 13. Large sacrifices. The midquel, Fire Emblem: Thracia 776, reveals that Loputousu and his cult are not "sacrificing" the children per se; rather, they are forcing them to fight to the death, with the winners being rewarded with positions of nobility in the Lopt Empire. That said, the vast majority of the children are killed in these battles. | |
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In Teen Titans, Kardiak only targeted children, because, according to Word of God, he was supposed to be more of an anime-style villain. | |
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One storyline of And Shine Heaven Now features an Adze, a vampire that feeds on children and can take the form of a firefly. | |
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Would you believe Animal Crossing has one? In a Splatoon-themed event in Pocket Camp, players could catch the squid and octopus forms of Inklings and Octolings and give them to Chip, who would talk about them as if they were any other fish in the game: with hunger. Granted, this is probably more due to limited dialogue or the fact that Chip isn't supposed to be particularly bright, but COME ON, Nintendo! | |
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The Laundry Files (by Charles Stross): The Fuller Memorandum has the Nyar lath-Hotep cultists, who hold their monster summoning ritual next door to a primary school so that they can grab a bite to eat after church. Later on, after capturing Bob and performing a spell to turn him to their side (among other things), they offer him some "refreshments." | |
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Unsounded: Cutter says that in his perfect world there'd be a baby in every crock-pot. The Silver later messes with him by creating a "fruit" for him to eat that breaks open to reveal that its innards are shaped like an infant Inak in its shell. | |
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Arioch from Drakengard is a psychotic Serial Killer who eats children, and only children. While she'll kill adults, children are the only ones she cannibalizes due to psychosis from having lost her family to The Empire and rendered infertile by a Deal with the Devil. The game also provides a sick inversion where gigantic children eat the main characters. More specifically the aforementioned Arioch. |
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Jenny Green-Teeth in The Wee Free Men. And the headless horseman. And dromes. And elves. | |
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In the Blackadder episode "Money", the title character owes a large sum of money to which he can't possibly repay to the Bank of the Black Monks. They send the 'Baby-Eating' Bishop of Bath and Welles to collect or if Blackadder doesn't pay up, he gets to have his 'fun'. He seems to live up to his name when on first confronting Blackadder he asks if he has any children. When he gets a 'no', he says he'll skip breakfast and move on to business then. | |
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Doctor Who: The Krillitanes, from "School Reunion", masquerade as teachers in a school, and are implied to eat students who don't measure up. Their boss begins the episode by explicitly eating a girl just for having a headache (and because she was an orphan). | |
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The Walkers from the graphic novel Midnight Nation will kill, torture, and eat adults and children alike... but they prefer children. | |
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In Icewind Dale 2, the witch Limha is a particular sadistic variant. To preserve her youth, she drains lifeforce from the children of a nearby group of fur-traders and turns them into minks as a side effect. Minks that are hunted and skinned by their own unwitting parents. She gets sick kicks from watching the traders murder and skin their own missing children. | |
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Secret Magic Control Agency: Hansel argues that it would be dangerous for him and Gretel to go to Baba Yaga since they've been transformed into children, but Gretel insists that there's nothing to indicate the rumours that she eats children are actually true. Hansel turns out to be right; Baba Yaga feeds them cookies laced with a sleeping potion and traps them in her house so she can eat them. | |
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In Torchwood: Children of Earth, an alien being called the 456 comes to Earth and demands 10% of the child population of the planet. It doesn't want the children to eat them, it wants them because the children release chemicals which to it are like a drug. It's essentially getting high off of kids. Very, very squicky. | |
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In The BFG, the evil giants tend to eat people regardless of age, but seem to prefer kids, because "Little chiddlers is not so tough to eat as old grandmamma, so says the Childchewing Giant". | |
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This is part of The Comics Curmudgeon's interpretation of Marmaduke as a Hellhound. | |
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The Corinthian in The Sandman (1989) is already a repulsive Picky People Eater, but he seems to strongly favor the eyes of barely-pubescent boys. Morpheus created him to represent the horrors of the modern world and the fears associated with them, with one in particular fueling the Corinthian's hunger. He eventually gets remade into a less horrific being. | |
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One really squicky villain in Hellblazer, who was the demonic embodiment of rape trapped in the body of a dead child, sustained itself by drinking babies. While investigating the monster's house, Constantine accidentally discovered what was left of them when he opened a closet and a pile of dozens of dead bloodless babies collapsed on him. | |
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True Blood: Nigel Beckford is introduced in season 5 as a pedophile vampire who disguised himself as a nurse practitioner and ate babies at the local hospital. He was arrested by the Authority (the vampire government) and imprisoned. He's later released by Salome when the Sanguinistas take over, and we see him feasting on a child when the Authority crashes a wedding reception and slaughters all of the guests there. | |
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Bruno the Bandit had a storyline parodying The Sword of Truth and its Protagonist-Centered Morality. The main villain of the story is portrayed as one of these in a TV interview. | |
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Baba Yaga is a witch in slavic folklore who was infamous for this. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer has several: Der Kindestod ('The Death of Children') from the second season episode "Killed by Death", who preys on sick children and kills them horribly. His appearance is clearly an homage to Freddy Krueger. In "I Only Have Eyes for You", Angelus is so disturbed by being forced to feel love (he and Buffy were possessed by the ghosts of dead lovers) that he insists on going out and killing a child to bring back a sense of evil in himself. In the third season episode "Band Candy", the demon Larconis requires a tribute in the form of a ritual feeding every thirty years. What does it feed on? Newborn babies. In the episode "Gingerbread", a demon actually creates a panic by falsely making people believe children have been killed. Buffy laments the fact that this creates a panic, but the daily killing of innocent adults doesn't even cause a stir. In "Triangle", Olaf the Troll demands he be brought babies to eat. Spike at first suggests they check the hospital, and then suggests onion flowers as an alternative. According to Anya, Santa Claus is real, but instead of leaving presents, he comes down chimneys to disembowel children on Christmas. |
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In the animated version of Doctor Strange, Dormammu uses children to try to enter the human world. | |
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Pan's Labyrinth: One task the young heroine Ofelia must complete for the Faun is to retrieve a precious dagger from the lair of The Pale Man (both beings being played, again, by Doug Jones), a grotesque humanoid monster with his eyes on his hands who sits asleep at a table where a great banquet is laid. Murals on the walls of the chamber depict him cruelly killing and devouring scores of little children, and there is a pile of shoes implied to be left over from all the children he's eaten. On the way out, Ofelia succumbs to the temptation of eating from the delicious fruit on the table, causing the pale man to wake up and try to eat her; her fairy companions die trying to protect her, and she barely escapes with her life. There's a reason his portrait is on the film's nightmare fuel page! | |
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In Countdown to Final Crisis, Mary Marvel, after her Face–Heel Turn, briefly encounters a demon who claims to be the harvester of souls of stillborn children. After introducing himself as such he threatens to disembowel her and eat the digested food from her intestines. In other words, he's the dead baby monster that eats poop. | |
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In one Family Guy episode, Peter tells Chris that he can do whatever he wants while he and Lois go on a trip except go near the Candy Tree. | |
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One of the Mole-Men listed in More Information Than You Require is "Ms. Edna Humanchildstealer". | |
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Harvestman of Daddy-Long-Legs is, amazingly, a heroic example. (Partly justified since neither he nor the children in question are human.) | |
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The Orb of Bask from YuYu Hakusho took the souls of children, which the wielder could use as food. Goki demonstrates this as Yusuke approaches him, although Yusuke defeats him before the children's souls could digest, allowing them to float back to their bodies upon being freed. | |
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Captain Mako, the shark mutant of City of Heroes has this on his record as if first big act of villainy. He killed off his orphanage because the other kids were taunting him for being a Mutant. Though actually we are never specifically told he ate the other kids, but considering his preferred method of murder in his adulthood and how he disposes of the bodies, it is pretty heavily implied. | |
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The eponymous monsters in The Witches want to kill children because they can't stand the smell of them — a child, particularly a freshly-bathed one, smells like dog's droppings to a witch. They eventually decide to turn them all into mice, because the parents would then poison, trap or otherwise dispatch the newly arrived rodent infestation, not realizing it was their children. The witches get sick satisfaction from tricking the parents into offing their own kids. | |
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All-Star Comics: Gallifron is a giant Ogre who hunts and eats children. The JSA fight him to free an entire sack full of children he's just collected as snacks. | |
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Gravity Falls: The Summerween Trickster threatens to eat Dipper and his friends for lacking Summerween Spirit, unless they bring him 500 pieces of candy before the last Jack-o-melon goes out. Then to show he's serious he devours a random trick-or-treater. He also eats the adult Soos, which proves his undoing as Soos eats his way out. | |
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Fear & Hunger: Pocketcat is a boogeyman commonly said to abduct and devour children. He does this to a child during a late-game interaction with him, and if you have the Girl and/or Demon Child in your party, you can sell them to him in exchange for powerful items. | |
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A taste he shares with Tojiro XIV, the Asian vampire from Grendel. | |
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