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Circling Vultures
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In fiction, when a character, especially one wandering through a Thirsty Desert, seems on the brink of death, vultures may be seen circling overhead or perching menacingly nearby, waiting for their prey to collapse and die. It's like a visual shorthand for the natural world itself saying If You Die, I Call Your Stuff. Despite the trope name, the birds don't necessarily have to be vultures — crows and ravens are often used to provide much the same effect. However, as vultures do intentionally prefer scavenging, it just fits the scenario more. In Real Life, vultures (and other large birds) do circle, but it's related to how they fly instead of being strictly part of their hunting methods. Gaining height in flight requires a lot of energy, and large birds rely on riding thermals, columns of rising hot air, to save their strength. Not to be confused with Circling Birdies even though vultures are birds. See also Kidnapping Bird of Prey, for when the bird goes after the character while they're still alive. More often than not, these will be some of the only living things to keep you company in the Sea of Sand. Compare and contrast Vile Vulture where individual vultures are depicted as villains. As a Death Trope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware of the vultures. |
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In I'll Be Home for Christmas, Jake is stranded in the desert in a Santa costume glued to his body. When he moans that he wishes he was dead, a buzzard nearby takes interest. Jake clarifies that he only wishes he was dead, not that he is dead. | |
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Tales from the Crypt: An episode ends with an escaped convict paralyzed in the middle of the desert, about to be eaten alive by vultures. | |
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Dune. After Liet-Kynes is left in the desert to die, he sees hawks (the Dune equivalent of vultures) circling overhead. | |
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The Far Side: In "the perils of improper circling", two of the vultures bonk heads in mid-air. One famous strip has some vultures gathered around an unseen corpse. One of them is wearing the guy's hat and coat and says mockingly "Hey! Look at me, everybody, I'm a cowboy! Howdy, howdy, howdy!" Another strip cartoon has a parched desert traveler crawling his way towards a pool of water. This prospect disappoints one vulture hovering above him, but a second vulture prepares to drop a piano on him before he reaches it. Yet another strip shows Pinocchio stranded in the desert, with the vultures replaced by woodpeckers intent on pecking on his wooden body. Another strip features two elderly men feeding birds at a park bench, commenting on the smaller birds eating their seed but wondering why two much larger birds nearby just stare at them. And another one has the vultures gathered around a pepperoni pizza. |
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Gun Fury: After Jess objects to Slayton abducting Jennifer and prevents him from raping her, Slayton leaves him tied to a post for the circling vultures: telling him he'll maybe last 24 hours. | |
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Bones: In one episode, when the heroes are looking for some remains, they see vultures circling and know that that's where the remains were. In one episode, the characters are lost in the desert and see vultures circling over them. |
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CSI: NY: In "No Good Deed", vultures circling a body on a rooftop lead investigators to it after a long search. | |
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In the "Pecos Bill" segment of Melody Time, Bill meets his horse Widowmaker when rescuing him from circling vultures. | |
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Kevin & Kell: In one strip, Ms Aura (a school teacher and a turkey buzzard) is circling above Rudy's homework. Rudy and Bruno comment that this isn't a good sign. Subverted in the June 12, 2005 strip. A bunch of vultures are shown standing on the top of laptops at an internet café, which makes Kevin think the wi-fi the customers are using isn't secure... but then it turns out said vultures are just the waitstaff. |
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A Witch Shall Be Born. Conan the Barbarian is crucified out in the desert, and no guard is placed on him because they'll scare off the vultures, and the sellsword who placed Conan there wants them to feast on Conan before he dies. As in the movie, he kills a vulture who tries feasting on him too early. Some passing desert nomads admire his toughness and rescue him, figuring he'll be a useful addition to their ranks. The story ends with Conan (now chief of the nomad tribe) leaving the sellsword to the same fate, knowing the city-raised sellsword won't last nearly as long as he would and no-one's coming to save him. | |
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In The Yearling, this is how Jody finds the orphaned fawn. The vultures are circling over the carcass of its mother. | |
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In the Dragaera novels, jhereg take the place of vultures for purposes of this trope. Loiosh and Rocza, seen circling Vlad's unconscious body in Tiassa, are mistaken for this by some guardsmen. | |
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Airplane!: They're not circling, but a bunch of vultures perch over the heroes as they prepare to crash-land. | |
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In Hyper Light Drifter there is an entire cult of birds resembling vultures or corvids. | |
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In Desert Nights jewel thieves Steve and Diana rob a diamond mine's safe, kidnap Hugh the mine foreman, and escape into the desert. The escape goes bad in a Thirsty Desert. Hugh makes sure that they notice the vultures circling overhead, waiting to eat them. | |
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SAS: Rogue Heroes. Shown at the end of episode 2 when the newly formed Special Air Service arrives at Kabrit for their first mission. Which doesn't go well. | |
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Temple of Terror have you crossing the Desert of Skulls in order to find the Lost City of Vatos. At one point you can find an oasis with birds circling over it, and given the choice to drink from the water. If you chose that option, it turns out the water is poisoned, those birds are vultures, and you're now dead. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Invoked in End of Evangelion when the winged MP Evas are air dropped into the geofront. | |
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The Muppet Show: Before performing the famous "Telephone Pole Bit", Fozzie tells Scooter that "we are gonna die" (meaning the skit is going to bomb), and as Scooter asks what makes him think that, the camera focuses on two vultures looking down on them. | |
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In Lords of Xulima, circling vultures are a common background element in the Varaskel desert region. Typically they're circling around some sun-bleached bones, too... | |
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks: During the animals' soccer game, vultures serve as medics, waiting on the sidelines for the referee (Mr. Brown) to be trampled by the players. A Running Gag is made of them rushing into the field to "treat" Mr. Brown, only to be waved away after he turns out to be alive. | |
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xkcd: Parodied in strip #962 when one character finds himself harried by a "time vulture", a ragged-looking bird with a lifespan of millennia and the ability to slow its own internal clock to a crawl. They hunt by latching onto a random creature, circling above it and waiting until it stops moving. Of course, the creature in question may be perfectly healthy and have decades of life left in it, but the time vultures can just wait. | |
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The Scavengers: At the start, Sgt. Ward is worried that circling buzzards might give away their position if the horse dies. At the end, buzzards land and come for Harris as he is pinned under his dead horse. | |
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Defied in Days N' Daze's song "Ward Off The Vultures." | |
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Evolve has this as a gameplay mechanic. Every time the monster eats there is a chance of spawning these. While the first two meals have a 0% chance, those odds increase until the eighth has a 100% chance. The odds reset to a lower number every time birds spawn. Unlucky players may trigger these with every meal while others may never see them. | |
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The Lion King Adventures features an example of this in Growing Pains. In this story, Simba keeps rapidly ageing, eventually falling unconscious in the middle of the flatlands due to becoming too old. The vultures close in on him, circling overhead. He just manages to claw his way to safety under the shade of a tree. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons module B8 Journey to the Rock. When the PCs reach the Cave of Sanctuary they will see sinister vultures circling lazily overhead: they're about to snack on the body of a recently killed gnome. | |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Two vultures follow the Queen in her Wicked Witch disguise as she goes to the cottage to get Snow White, and their presence alerts the Woodland Creatures that there is something seriously wrong about the "peddler woman" with her basket of apples, clearly being aware that the Queen was trying to poison Snow White and eager when she offered her an apple. In the end, the vultures demonstrate that they were not after someone specific in particular, and thus, as the Evil Queen falls to her doom, the vultures slowly circle down after her instead. | |
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Prehistoric Planet: Circling Azhdarchids in the second episode, but the principle is the same. They're afraid to land to feed on a sauropod carcass because a pack of Tarbosaurus are still sleeping nearby, and have to wait until they leave before descending. | |
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In Porgy and Bess, a buzzard flying over Catfish Row is seen as a bad omen. | |
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In Avatar: The Last Airbender, the group gets lost in the desert and thinking of ways to find a way out, while Sokka is still tripping on cactus juice. "Why don't we ask the circle birds?" Said circle birds also happen to be part wasp. | |
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Invoked in the "Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen Anthem" from The Ren & Stimpy Show: | |
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In Arthur, this is used (and mentioned), as Francine and Fern draw attention to the fact that there are vultures above them when they're lost in the mountains. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past: In the Desert of Mystery, vultures leave their cactus perch and circle around Link. During the ending credits, vultures in the desert circle around the Master Locksmith, the Average Middle-Aged Man. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: A swarm of seagulls marks the spot in the waters of Great Bay where the nearly-dead Mikau is floating, and achieves the same effect. |
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In Tumbleweed, Jim watches the circling buzzards and compares them to Yaqui who are patiently waiting to starve him and the posse out. He even remarks that if you didn't know what they signified, they might even be considered pretty. | |
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The Andromeda Strain: The military in search of the Scoop satellite sees buzzards circling over Piedmont, foreshadowing the massacre The Plague has caused. When Nash is alone in the desert and is being pursued by government assassins, a couple of vultures start circling over him, causing him to get pissed and starting throwing rocks at them. |
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James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" features a variant, with Blunt's character briefly looking up to see a flock of seagulls (which, like vultures, are scavengers) circling over him as he's about to throw himself off of a cliff. | |
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Girl Genius: A filler strip notifying that the writer "is sick and feeling a mite melodramatic" shows him cowering in bed, worriedly eyeing a very large vulture perched on his covers and glaring at him. | |
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Julius Caesar (1970) opens on the desolate battlefield of Munda, with vultures circling over it. | |
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In The Lion King (1994), vultures swoop down on an exhausted Simba, but are dispersed by Timon and Pumbaa "bowling for buzzards". | |
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After Caboose accidentally kills Church with a tank in Red vs. Blue, he tries to cheer him up. "Look, birds! ...why are they flying around in circles?" | |
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Far Out: A vulture comes to look at our wandering main character. Despite his being a robot and so slightly inedible. | |
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The magnopterans in Alien Biospheres are a lineage of large opisthopterans that fill a similar niche to vultures, soaring over deserts with their long wings in search of carcasses. | |
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Beavis and Butt-Head Do America: Beavis and Butt-Head wander off into the desert in an idiotic attempt to try and reach Washington D.C on foot (from New Mexico!) and end up slowly dying from dehydration (after briefly stumbling across two drifters who are heavily implied to be their long-lost fathers). Sure enough, the vultures show up. One even attempts to gnaw on Beavis while he's still alive. While very near death, they still take a moment to giggle at two of the vultures having sex. They're eventually found by Muddy, the movie's Big Bad who "rescues" them just so he can shoot them. | |
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Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception: Downplayed. When Nathan Drake comes ashore in Yemen, right after escaping a pirate ship, he finds a single vulture waiting for him. He promptly tells it to clear off. | |
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Capricorn One: Subverted. One of the astronauts being hunted by government agents in the desert, delirious from heat and thirst, thinks he sees "birds" circling above him—and in the camera shot depicting his blurred vision, it does look like vultures circling. Turns out to be those Black Helicopters though. | |
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In the Quiller novel The Tango Briefing, the British spy is sent to investigate a crashed airplane in the desert, which has the requisite vultures to his distaste. The plane turns out to be carrying a cargo of fear gas, so Quiller hallucinates that he's being attacked by giant vultures. The vultures serve as a Chekhov's Gun when Quiller has to detonate a small atomic bomb to destroy the gas, but the timing mechanism is broken. He plays dead, waits till the vultures come to have a taste, grabs one of them and throws it inside the cockpit where he's jammed the bomb's detonator button under the thrust levers. When the vulture gets tired of flapping around in outrage it goes to perch on the levers and... | |
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The Cave of the Yellow Dog: Some vultures, who don't have any carrion handy, start circling a lost toddler who is very much alive. | |
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The Andromeda Strain (1971): When the SCOOP team approaches the town of Piedmont they see buzzards circling over the town, a Foreshadowing of the dead bodies they will find there. When they see birds feasting on the corpses, they drop Deadly Gas grenades to stop them flying off and spreading the pathogen. | |
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Circling scavenger birds appear in more than one chapter of The Cold Moons. A few buzzards and a red kite inadvertently lead Eldon's group to a dying deer, which they kill and bring back to their sick peers. | |
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CSI-verse: All three branches of the franchise have used the spot-the-vultures technique of finding human remains. CSI: NY: In "No Good Deed", vultures circling a body on a rooftop lead investigators to it after a long search. |
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Cubone's Pokédex entries in Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Ultra Sun mention that when it cries for its mother, the cries attract Mandibuzz, its natural predator. | |
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Dinosaur Revolution: In the Protoceratops story. Well, it's more like circling Azhdarchids... | |
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In Day of the Evil Gun, buzzards start circling above Warfield and Forbes after the Apache stake them out in the desert to die. They soon start landing for a closer look. | |
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In DC Challenge, Aquaman is stranded in the desert, dying of dehydration. (This is the "can only be away from water 60 minutes" version of Aquaman.) Vultures are circling. What can he do? Wait until one lands and then open it up and drink its blood - since blood is like 98% water, it counts. | |
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In King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!, two vultures descend if Graham dies of thirst in the desert. | |
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Fall. The plot involves two women who are stranded in the desert on top of a 2,000-foot-high derelict transmission tower. Their situation is not made easier by a vulture that attacks the exposed wound of one of them, though she eventually uses this to lure it close and kill it for enough sustenance to survive a little longer. | |
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In Five, it is established that some birds survived the apocalypse. On seeing a circling vulture, Michael curses it as a horrible scavenger and tells Rosemarie how he saw flocks of them in the cities full of dead bodies after the bomb went off. | |
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Sard Harker: During his trek through the wilderness, Harker has an encounter with a trio of vultures, which first perch menacingly then circle overhead. | |
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The 3 Little Pigs: The Movie: Two vultures perch on a tree near The Inn of the Gentle Wolf and hope the dinner guests let them have some bones to gnaw on after the Dinner Theatre where Wally and Beemo will be the stars of the show. | |
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Wonder Woman: Odyssey: Some vultures follow Diana through a lonely desert and end up feasting on her enemies after a group of mercenaries tries, and fails, to slaughter a stranded group of mostly unarmed Amazon refugees, apparently without much understanding of what "Amazon" means even if the group is mostly the old and infirm. | |
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The Sword Of Saint Ferdinand: After a skirmish next to the Genil River, a flock of vultures quickly appears and starts circling over the ruins littered with bodies of dead soldiers. Somberly, the narration remarks that only carrion-eaters profit from the war. | |
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Silent Tongue opens with Talbot shooing buzzards away from Awbonnie's body. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: A swarm of seagulls marks the spot in the waters of Great Bay where the nearly-dead Mikau is floating, and achieves the same effect. | |
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In Discworld II one puzzle involves vultures hovering over a piece of carrion. Hide a rotting severed arm among the trader's goods and watch vultures to see where he keeps going. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past: In the Desert of Mystery, vultures leave their cactus perch and circle around Link. During the ending credits, vultures in the desert circle around the Master Locksmith, the Average Middle-Aged Man. | |
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The Bridge on the River Kwai: During his escape through the jungle, Shears notices a couple of vultures waiting for him to die. | |
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In the Forever (2014) episode "Best Foot Forward," after a dancer is kidnapped and they track down the hotel room where her foot was amputated, Henry spotting seagulls circling a spot on the shore is how they find where she was dumped, in this case before she becomes a corpse. | |
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The Jungle Book: Referenced in "Tiger! Tiger!": | |
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The Egyptian (1954) opens with the protagonist as an elderly man in exile on the shores of the Red Sea writing How We Got Here. | |
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March of the Dinosaurs: Well, it's more like circling Azhdarchids... | |
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In Tarzan the Untamed, Tarzan has to cross a large, completely barren desert region to reach an area of good hunting beyond. By the third day his food and water are gone, and the desert has no springs or other water sources, nor any edible life of any kind that he can find. There's only a single vulture circling overhead. Subverted when he lures it into arm's reach, and kills and eats it. | |
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Die Anstalt: Used for one of Dolly's dream sequences, but the vultures are part-wolf. | |
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In the Star Trek: Voyager fanfic The Flux of Mortal Things, Vorik is experiencing a pon farr hallucination where he's crossing a desert on Vulcan with a solitary shavokh circling far above, waiting for him to collapse from hunger or fatigue. | |
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Referenced by Ego Likeness in their song, "Aviary": | |
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Ice Age: The Meltdown had talking vultures circle the various creatures trying to escape the flood waiting for some to fail, leaving them with dinner. | |
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In Conan the Barbarian (1982), one vulture actually tries to peck the crucified Conan. Conan bites its neck and chokes it. | |
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Gravity Falls: In "Northwest Mansion Mystery" the introduction of the town's century-old Mayor, Eustace Befufftlefumpter, has him followed by a few vultures. He doesn't seem all that bothered by their presence. "That's okay, they're with me." In "The Love God", Robbie is lying in an open grave and mopes loudly about how much he misses Wendy. A vulture shows up, and Robbie tells it to just go ahead and eat him already. Once it does, however, he quickly backtracks. |
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