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Eating Optional

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Eating Optional	comment	This trope is a trait of some supernatural beings. These beings are not bound by the natural limitation of needing to feed to survive, yet for one reason or another, they do so anyway. The being in question might have once been human and eats because they still enjoy the taste of food. Or they might eat because they are among Muggles and need to maintain the Masquerade. In stranger cases, the being has no need to eat but still hungers. If this is the case, then they can be vulnerable to a Fate Worse than Death. They can be trapped or imprisoned without food indefinitely, forever starving, yet never starving to death. Such beings also vary in intelligence and in their choice of food. Some are as sentient as any human and enjoy the same foods normal humans do, while others are mindless man-eaters. If a story has man-eating monsters, then having this trait makes them even more monstrous. Most natural beings eat so they can survive. These guys don't even have that excuse. A Sub-Trope of The Needless. See also Eating Machine, No Such Thing as Dehydration, and Perpetual-Motion Monster.
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Eating Optional / int_151de869	comment	Vice the demon from Kamen Rider Revice doesn't even have a corporeal body without outside assistance, so he obviously doesn't need to eat. That doesn't mean he doesn't like it. It takes him roughly half the series to finally get his hands on a plate of curry. Then it gets subverted when Vice and Ikki switch places after first trying the mysterious Rolling Vistamp. Vice himself is as fine as ever, but they quickly find out that Ikki still needs food even though he's now a spirit living in Vice's body, meaning they have to reverse the situation quickly before Ikki starves.
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Eating Optional / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age: The darkspawn don't actually need to eat, the taint they carry sustains them. But they like to eat people alive anyway and are even known to eat each other if there are no people around.
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Eating Optional / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: Nate Grey, a.k.a. X-Man, states that he doesn't need to eat, drink, or even breathe after his powers reach their full potential in his 'Shaman' state — it gets to the point where he admits that he only does things like that to reassure other people around him, and at one point, doesn't even notice that he's standing in a room full of nitrogen gas. Unusually, prior to his powers being stabilised, he had spurts of being a Big Eater to try and support his malfunctioning metabolism, and after he undergoes a De-power, he needs to eat just like everyone else. The Juggernaut is sometimes stated to not need food, though this doesn't necessarily mean he's immune to hunger. He once spent a month trapped underground, forcing his way through bedrock — despite not needing to eat or breathe, it was still a brutal experience.
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Eating Optional / int_273f5a66	comment	For the Love of the Gods: Gods do not need food or sleep as mortals do. That is not to say that they don't enjoy either when they can.
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Eating Optional / int_359a4c22	comment	In A Discovery of Witches, vampires can eat nuts and drink wine but must have blood to survive though can go for periods without it.
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Eating Optional / int_35db946f	comment	HFIL: Eating is optional, but the inmates do it for various reasons anyway, most common of which is just to pass the time. Remember: they're in hell, and their souls are indestructible anyway.
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Eating Optional / int_38c57aa2	comment	The Warforged from Eberron do not need to eat or drink, as they are Mechanical Lifeforms, but they can eat if they wish.
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Eating Optional / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman: Traditionally, the Amazons are immortal while on Paradise Island, meaning they don't need to eat, but do for enjoyment and to improve their quality of life. Off the island they're just as mortal as anyone else, if a bit stronger and hardier, and need to eat like any other human. Iterations of the Amazons following the completion of Volume 1 are generally less consistent on this rule and how it works.
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Eating Optional / int_3aeb1c75	comment	Dragon Ball: The Namekians, a race of plant-like slug people, only need to drink water to live. Piccolo is seen eating fish, however, and he can eat the oh-so-useful Senzus with no problem, and his previous incarnation Great Demon King Piccolo enjoys a (really gross) feast in Dragon Ball. Since Earth has far less sunlight than Namek (which has multiple suns in perpetual daylight), it's possible that he actually has to eat while living there. This is backed up by Kami telling Mr. Popo it was hard to find food when he first arrived on Earth, before Demon King Piccolo split from him. The dead have no need for food because they're... well, dead. That doesn't stop Goku from eating and begging for food despite being dead. He eats just as much as usual, too. Lampshaded by the KaiÅ� and Kuririn/Krillin. Dr. Gero's human-derived Androids only need to drink water. Their engines power not only their cybernetic implants but also their biological components. Despite this, 17 and 18 still have fully functioning digestive systems and can eat food despite not needing to.
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Eating Optional / int_3b34143f	comment	When Harry Potter visits Nearly Headless Nick's deathday party in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, there's a banquet of rotten food laid out for the ghosts. Harry figures they let the food rot so that the flavors are strong enough for the ghosts to actually taste.
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Eating Optional / int_3be307d1	comment	In some continuities of Tenchi Muyo!, Ryoko does not need food as a side effect of being an artificial lifeform, and may not even have a sense of taste. She eats to be social and drinks because she enjoys being drunk.
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Eating Optional / int_3e8c09b9	comment	In Attack on Titan, the Titans don't need to eat, as it's implied that they get all of the energy they need from sunlight. They don't even have any digestive organs. They still eat humans, and only humans, then vomit out what's left of their victims after a few hours. Why they do this is a mystery at first. It turns out that they're not trying to eat humans, but instead are instinctively looking for Titan Shifters. Once a mindless titan consumes a Shifter's spinal fluids, they'll regain their human form and intelligence, and inherit their power of being able to shift from human to Titan at will.
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Eating Optional / int_40c936e6	comment	The Vampire of Steel: Played straight with Supergirl, and weirdly inverted with Zol-Am, who didn't need to eat — thanks to his Kryptonian metabolism — before being turned into a vampire.
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Eating Optional / int_41804317	comment	Anpanman gets sustenance out of the red bean paste inside his head. However, when he was a child, he mentioned eating a good amount of food from a picnic lunch he had earlier.
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Eating Optional / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: In one book, Harry meets up with a vampire in a bar to thrash out the details of their duel. When Harry expresses his surprise that the vampire orders a beer, that vampire explains that he doesn't derive nourishment from the beer, but it still tastes good.
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Eating Optional / int_43576f5	comment	In Supernatural, angels do not have to eat, but some choose to do so, as they enjoy it.
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Eating Optional / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: Death likes takeaway curries. Don't think about how he manages to swallow, or where the food goes next. In Thief of Time, the incarnated Auditors are technically able to eat, but they don't need to and actually have to avoid it. Because they don't normally have bodies, they're so unprepared for the sensation of tasting that a flavorful food like chocolate makes them lose concentration and evaporate.
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Eating Optional / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft: During the fantasy counterpart of Thanksgiving, one of the Forsaken chefs wonders why they go into so much trouble preparing the feast considering that, being undead, they don't need to eat anymore. He ends up shrugging it off and decides that "tradition is tradition".
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Eating Optional / int_5030d3bb	comment	In A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, the Robot Kid David not only doesn't need to eat but really shouldn't. After being taunted by his human sibling, he gets into an eating race, only for the food to damage his internal components and cause him to break.
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Eating Optional / int_524f6eb2	comment	Legend of Zagor allows you to obtain a magic ring at one point, which staves off starvation and eliminates needs for sustenance (you obtain said ring from a knight in the castle's dungeons, where he's trapped there for several weeks, and the ring's magic is what's keeping him alive). However, you can still consume meals to recover Stamina points if necessary.
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Eating Optional / int_52646e97	comment	Undead from Kamen Rider Blade are immortal and thus have no need for sustenance. Hajime apparently needs to eat as human do for reasons unknown.
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Eating Optional / int_5293b208	comment	Bugsters from Kamen Rider Ex-Aid don't have to eat as they are digital beings, but they apparently can enjoy food as evidenced by Poppy and Graphite stealing Hiiro's cake on separate occasions.
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Eating Optional / int_52a9490e	comment	Ganma from Kamen Rider Ghost have no need for sustenance of any kind while in their artificial bodies and scoff at both the action itself and the mortal lifeform that need to perform it, so the question whether they could enjoy it is never answered. On the other hand, they do need to eat when in their real, mortal bodies and they can enjoy it probably even more than regular humans.
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Eating Optional / int_52e8fba	comment	No one can die in the Land of Oz (at least by conventional means), making death by starvation impossible. However, hunger still exists, and being without food can still be quite uncomfortable.
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Eating Optional / int_534c1b6b	comment	Mirror monsters from Kamen Rider Ryuki are an unfortunate aversion. Their diet consists of humans, and they are everywhere. They can eat each other too, but only if they kill their prey first. Some monsters make contracts with Riders to hunt for them in exchange for power.
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Eating Optional / int_53f9ae8a	comment	I Woke Up As a Dungeon, Now What?: Living things can, in a pinch, sustain themselves on pure mana. It's not pleasant and will leave you weakened, but you can't actually starve to death unless you're in a very mana-poor region like Central.
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Eating Optional / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: Since Xykon is an undead lich, he doesn't need to eat. In the prequel book Start of Darkness, though, we find that when he was still mortal, he was extremely fond of coffee, and part of his rage against everything is that now that he's a lich, he can no longer taste it.
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Eating Optional / int_58c15fb0	comment	Hurog: Oreg is near-immortal, so he doesn't need to eat. When he pretends to be a normal human being, he can eat to avoid suspicion.
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Eating Optional / int_59524541	comment	Will-Powered: Casket, having a soulless body, does not need to eat. In fact, if he does, whatever he consumes doesn't even get digested. Quite possibly the most tragic aspect of the story, considering Sanji's a thing.
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Eating Optional / int_59e4ac65	comment	Saintess Summons Skeletons: Since Alith is undead, she doesn't actually need to eat, but she usually ignores that unless she's in a situation where food is tight. In which case, she volunteers to be emergency rations for Sofia, since she can chop off an arm and then be healed with mana; distasteful, but it avoids starvation. Demonic apostles don't need to eat or drink, but after a very long imprisonment, the first thing Zerei wants is to cook herself a meal of Brogerfell.
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Eating Optional / int_5c208620	comment	Superman: The Animated Series: Clark mentions that he doesn't have to eat, but does anyway because he likes it.
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Eating Optional / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted: Spirits have no need for food, but many Terrestrial gods are liable to consume offerings made to them, and Celestial gods have a tendency to convert the prayers made for them into lavish feasts, as well as consuming the specially produced peaches of immortality (the gods are also immortal by default). Several kinds of demon, most notably the blood apes, have their own Trademark Favorite Foods. Several types of Exalted can learn Charms that replace the need to eat. Also, all Alchemical Exalted are capable of going without food indefinitely by living off of ambient Essence, though that has the drawback of keeping them from regaining any Essence they spend on using magic.
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Eating Optional / int_5e59ce49	comment	Elantris: The zombie-like Elantrians don't die from starvation but are even hungrier than normal. Every time a new Elantrian enters the city, the others jump him and fight over the small basket of food included in the funerary rites. The only reason they don't eat each other is that for some reason, Elantrian flesh tastes so horrible that not even the hungriest can keep it down.
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Eating Optional / int_60760b3f	comment	Dragon ShortZ: 18 admits that, thanks to her cyborg body, she no longer needs to eat, but considers a life without burgers a life not worth living.
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Eating Optional / int_62418963	comment	Orange Marmalade: Ma-ri is a vampire living in a society that fears and hates her kind, so she has to hide the truth at all times. To keep up this, she eats human food in her classroom every day at lunch, then flees to the bathroom to throw it up as her body naturally rejects it and drinks fresh pig's blood from prepared blood packs before returning to class.
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Eating Optional / int_645d2bd1	comment	Warbreaker: The Returned only need one Breath (part of a person's soul) a week to survive, but most eat food anyway because food tastes good.
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Eating Optional / int_662d3efd	comment	The Juggernaut is sometimes stated to not need food, though this doesn't necessarily mean he's immune to hunger. He once spent a month trapped underground, forcing his way through bedrock — despite not needing to eat or breathe, it was still a brutal experience.
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Eating Optional / int_6642385	comment	The girls in Zombie Land Saga don't need to eat, but they do it because they still enjoy food. When they go broke and can no longer afford groceries, Sakura says she's glad they don't need to eat in the first place.
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Eating Optional / int_69484cdd	comment	Stated pretty soon in Ushio and Tora: Youkai such as Tora himself and many others claim to enjoy devouring humans, either their flesh, organs or souls, but eating for them really is optional: Tora himself, despite his forced permanence in his dungeon, was starved from the ordeal, but not fatally so, being more than capable of fighting off well-fed, modern Youkai with ease, and despite his boasts about devouring humans for lunch, he ultimately settles for Hamburgers.
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Eating Optional / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: Outsiders are sustained by energies from their home plane and do not need to eat (though they can choose to do so if they wish). Demons in particular are fond of hunting and devouring other creatures since they are Always Chaotic Evil and enjoy inflicting suffering. However, whether celestials and fiends need to eat varies from edition to edition and sometimes even writer to writer. In most editions, ghouls have an overwhelming hunger for dead flesh but suffer no ill effects for not consuming it. (In the Fourth Edition, however, a ghoul that doesn't eat for too long might turn into a ghast, an even stronger variant.) The same applies to some other undead creatures. The Warforged from Eberron do not need to eat or drink, as they are Mechanical Lifeforms, but they can eat if they wish. The Elan are metamorphosed humans with innate Psychic Powers who can choose to spend one power point per day to suspend the need to eat or drink. Even the weakest Elan has a single power point that regenerates daily, so they can sustain themselves indefinitely in theory.
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Eating Optional / int_6c1234ed	comment	Dwarf Fortress: Werebeasts do technically still have to eat and drink, but their transformation once every month resets their physical needs before they can die from starvation or thirst.
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Eating Optional / int_6cc7497b	comment	Castlevania (2017): Vampires can eat food, but only get nourishment from blood. Food is considered an indulgence for them.
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Eating Optional / int_6e4054b8	comment	Every Heart a Doorway: When Nancy "goes still" and becomes a living statue, it slows her metabolism so much that she could survive for a month on a few spoonfuls of pomegranate juice and a bit of cake. This freaks her parents out during her return to Earth, because it looks like she's trying to starve herself.
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Eating Optional / int_705bb59a	comment	Vampire: The Masquerade: Vampires find it beneficial to the Masquerade to be seen eating normal food, but they draw no nourishment and cannot even digest it properly, since their stomachs no longer work. Anything they swallow must be expelled later. Unless you take a specific Merit at character creation, Vampires also have no sense of taste for anything except blood and might as well be eating dirt for all the enjoyment it brings them (characters with the Merit still cannot digest food, but they can taste and fully enjoy it — at least on the way down).
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Eating Optional / int_7393c0ce	comment	Hellsister Trilogy: Supergirl still eats physical food because she likes the taste (and the sense of normalcy), but she gets as much energy as she wants from yellow sunlight.
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Eating Optional / int_73d7930f	comment	In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Odo doesn't eat; as he tells Kira in one episode, he can do so and tried it once after assuming humanoid form, but it wasn't satisfying for him, as he does not have taste buds. He claims that it was "messy" too, likely because he had no idea how to chew. Odo later comes up with a way to give the appearance of eating in order to better fit in during socialization. Since he's a shapeshifter whose true form is a gelatinous liquid, he forms a cup in his hand (made out of himself) filled with a beverage (also made out of... himself) which he then "drinks", reabsorbing his own mass.
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Eating Optional / int_755fadab	comment	Haruhi Suzumiya: Yuki Nagato is an artificial humanoid interface, which is either a fancy way of saying she's a Ridiculously Human Robot, or an alien operating via A Form You Are Comfortable With. Whichever is the case, she explains to Kyon that she doesn't need to eat and only does so to blend in, which is necessary in order to observe Haruhi.
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Eating Optional / int_75e9b784	comment	Dies Irae: Users of the form of magic known as Die Ewigkeit don't need things such as food or even oxygen as they can just use souls for sustenance instead. That doesn't stop them from eating or breathing normally anyways. Most of the time, it's just because it's just simpler that way or the character in question doesn't want to waste their precious resources on such banal things unless they have to.
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Eating Optional / int_77be988d	comment	In Thief of Time, the incarnated Auditors are technically able to eat, but they don't need to and actually have to avoid it. Because they don't normally have bodies, they're so unprepared for the sensation of tasting that a flavorful food like chocolate makes them lose concentration and evaporate.
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Eating Optional / int_78146d21	comment	In the second and third movies, Davy Jones' crew also don't seem to need to eat. They might just eat fish, but considering that decapitation won't kill them, food is probably a non-issue.
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Eating Optional / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe: None of the Gems need to eat because their gemstones create their bodies and provide them with energy. Amethyst does it anyway because she enjoys it (and happily takes advantage of the fact that nothing can phase her) while Pearl refuses to eat because she thinks it's disgusting. When Amethyst, Garnet, and Pearl are fused together as Alexandrite in "Fusion Cuisine", Pearl's disgust with eating clashes with Amethyst's desire to eat shrimp and causes the fusion to fall apart. Word of God states that since Gems don't require food, they lack a digestive tract and must manually shapeshift one in order to process it. Lion eats sometimes, but not nearly as much as typical for an animal of his size. Steven doesn't normally leave food out for him, and he's never seen hunting anything larger than an iguana. Lars stops being hungry when he becomes like Lion, heavily implying that Lion doesn't need to eat because they're both a sort of undead being sustained by Rose/Steven's power.
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Eating Optional / int_78619e6b	comment	Darkmatter 2525: In the God and Jeffrey clip "If Man Obeyed God", Adam and Eve refuse to eat from the Tree of Knowledge and remain immortal. Thousands of years later, God (who'd actually expected them to eat it) tries to talk Adam into eating the apple after all, only to be told that Adam gave up eating centuries ago: he can't die, and not eating means he doesn't have to deal with the icky business of doing his business, so why bother?
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Eating Optional / int_78fbc3f4	comment	The Zombie Survival Guide describes at length how zombies not only don't need to eat but are incapable of digesting what they do, which leads to distended stomachs that eventually burst open due to pressure. The zombies go on eating due to the virus messing with their brains.
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Eating Optional / int_79bf0b84	comment	Slightly Damned: When in their respective realms of heaven and hell, angels and demons don't need any food, but Death mentions that some demons choose to eat anyway (while angels don't have any food in heaven). However, this only applies when in their home realms; when they are on Medius, they need sustenance just like everyone else. It's also stated that demon infants don't have to eat, but if they aren't nursed or fed in some way when young, they end up smaller and weaker than they would have been otherwise.
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Eating Optional / int_7abc4637	comment	Modern Magical Girls in Magical Girl Raising Project don't have to eat or drink. Some of them take advantage of this by staying transformed so that they don't have to buy food. Most of them still eat anyway because they like it or to regain energy.
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Eating Optional / int_80af6df5	comment	Class of the Titans: The gods eat, even though they don't need to. Hercules is partial to fried chicken, and Athena bakes.
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Eating Optional / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Odo doesn't eat; as he tells Kira in one episode, he can do so and tried it once after assuming humanoid form, but it wasn't satisfying for him, as he does not have taste buds. He claims that it was "messy" too, likely because he had no idea how to chew. Odo later comes up with a way to give the appearance of eating in order to better fit in during socialization. Since he's a shapeshifter whose true form is a gelatinous liquid, he forms a cup in his hand (made out of himself) filled with a beverage (also made out of... himself) which he then "drinks", reabsorbing his own mass. In Star Trek: The Next Generation, Lt. Commander Data eats even though he does not have to, in order to more closely emulate human behavior.
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Eating Optional / int_81f5d35d	comment	Kamen Rider: Mirror monsters from Kamen Rider Ryuki are an unfortunate aversion. Their diet consists of humans, and they are everywhere. They can eat each other too, but only if they kill their prey first. Some monsters make contracts with Riders to hunt for them in exchange for power. Undead from Kamen Rider Blade are immortal and thus have no need for sustenance. Hajime apparently needs to eat as human do for reasons unknown. Fangire from Kamen Rider Kiva prey on human life force, but they don't need it to survive. It's just that they consider humans to too low under them on the food chain to bother with and it's what they can do and desire to do. Greeed from Kamen Rider OOO don't need to eat because they are not actually alive and can't even enjoy eating much, because their senses are quite bad compared to humans. It doesn't stop Gamel from eating a mountain of sweets because he wants to. Ankh is the only Greeed able to enjoy eating because he is a Puppeteer Parasite of a human body, which needs to be fed at least every now and then, and something else than ice pops. Averted in Kamen Rider Gaim. Invess don't and can't eat earth food, but they can starve if stranded away from their home dimension. While they don't eat humans like mirror monsters, but a native fruit, they spread an aggressive plant and no less aggressive disease. Ganma from Kamen Rider Ghost have no need for sustenance of any kind while in their artificial bodies and scoff at both the action itself and the mortal lifeform that need to perform it, so the question whether they could enjoy it is never answered. On the other hand, they do need to eat when in their real, mortal bodies and they can enjoy it probably even more than regular humans. Bugsters from Kamen Rider Ex-Aid don't have to eat as they are digital beings, but they apparently can enjoy food as evidenced by Poppy and Graphite stealing Hiiro's cake on separate occasions. Vice the demon from Kamen Rider Revice doesn't even have a corporeal body without outside assistance, so he obviously doesn't need to eat. That doesn't mean he doesn't like it. It takes him roughly half the series to finally get his hands on a plate of curry. Then it gets subverted when Vice and Ikki switch places after first trying the mysterious Rolling Vistamp. Vice himself is as fine as ever, but they quickly find out that Ikki still needs food even though he's now a spirit living in Vice's body, meaning they have to reverse the situation quickly before Ikki starves.
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Eating Optional / int_83551418	comment	A Force of Four has Power Girl, who doesn't need food for as long as she has access to sunlight... although she is always willing to wolf down a good sandwich.
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Eating Optional / int_8470802c	comment	Under the Pendulum Sun: The Artificial Human changelings don't need food but still feel hungry when they go without. Ariel is a shamelessly Big Eater, which takes a sobering turn when she reveals that her human family starved to death around her in a workhouse.
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Eating Optional / int_847b5843	comment	Super Stupor: One strip has a homeless kid who doesn't need food or water to live. He still experiences hunger and pain from food deprivation, he just doesn't die from them.
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Eating Optional / int_88b348e8	comment	Cardcaptor Sakura: Due to The Power of the Sun, Cerberus/Kero generates his own energy. Regardless, he loves eating, especially sweets.
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Eating Optional / int_8a10bde9	comment	A Hollow in Equestria presents several examples: Ulquiorra doesn't need to eat, as he can sustain himself through mana absorption. However, while he doesn't specifically need to eat, he has experimented with a few foods on occasion. Celestia and presumably Luna also don't need to eat, but they do because it makes a nice indulgence.
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Eating Optional / int_8ba4613a	comment	In Death Note, Shinigami have no need to eat, since their species can't be killed by any of the things that would typically result in the death of a human. Nonetheless, Ryuk enjoys gorging himself on apples whenever he gets the chance; unlike other examples of this trope, it doesn't make him more likable or more human. Since he's stuffing his face without purpose, it displays that Ryuk is self-centered and greedy, not helped by his table manners (he can eat an entire apple, core and all, in just a few bites) or the fact that apples in general have a drug-like effect on him. Other Shinigami also enjoy eating human food; one of the Shinigami who shows up later enjoys chocolate.
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Eating Optional / int_8c5f856b	comment	In both Being Human (UK) and Being Human (US), vampires can eat human food, though they don't gain any sustenance from it. In the US version, Aiden explains to Sally that it appears to be for keeping up appearances.
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Eating Optional / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: In many continuities, Superman, Supergirl, Power Girl, and other Kryptonians don't need to eat (since they get all the energy they need from the sun), but often will out of habit or because they enjoy the taste. At least one continuity has Superman mention that food functions as a backup energy source of sorts and while he could sustain himself entirely through his powers eating regular food allows him to channel the solar energy that would have been used for that for other power uses instead.
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Eating Optional / int_91ecd9c8	comment	The Bridge (MLP) has the grown-up Godzilla Jr. from the 1990s continuity as one of its protagonists with those movies as canon. While as a youngster he still ate physical food as an omnivore, when he grew into his adult form as the new Godzilla, he got all the energy he needed from his nuclear reactor of a heart and sunlight. He hasn't eaten physical food in the two decades since but shows he's still capable of it when Captain Blueberry Frost forces him to try some Canterlot pub hayfries.
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Eating Optional / int_920bdb7c	comment	Kill Six Billion Demons: Angels are immortal Energy Beings whose bodies incinerate anything they eat or drink, but some enjoy the experience or the ritual of food preparation anyway. White Chain keeps coffee in their apartment "for friends", and they and The Dragon Juggernaut Star both enjoy brewing tea in fine porcelain.
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Eating Optional / int_93221cce	comment	Greeed from Kamen Rider OOO don't need to eat because they are not actually alive and can't even enjoy eating much, because their senses are quite bad compared to humans. It doesn't stop Gamel from eating a mountain of sweets because he wants to. Ankh is the only Greeed able to enjoy eating because he is a Puppeteer Parasite of a human body, which needs to be fed at least every now and then, and something else than ice pops.
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Eating Optional / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: Melisandre doesn't need to eat but does so to conceal this fact. She comes off as though she Forgets to Eat, which doesn't raise the same questions.
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Eating Optional / int_9dab421d	comment	In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Barbarossa's crew are cursed with this, as they are physically incapable of eating as food turns to ash when they do. Unfortunately for them, they don't need to eat anymore but still feel hunger pains.
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Eating Optional / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Brook doesn't need to eat since his devil fruit already keeps him alive (though he claims milk helps him regenerate).
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Eating Optional / int_9ecd1e02	comment	Dead Boy from Nightside doesn't need to eat, but he does so because acting like a living being helps him feel more human.
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Eating Optional / int_9f3ed456	comment	Nebula: Being the nigh-immortal Anthropomorphic Personification of a planet, Jupiter doesn't actually need to eat. He chooses to, though, in hopes of one day growing large enough to overthrow Sun and rule over the solar system. (It... doesn't seem to be working.)
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Eating Optional / int_a15ee289	comment	Last Child of Krypton: Having Kryptonian DNA, Shinji does not really need to eat, but he does anyway because he likes the taste of food. In chapter 3 he eats a toast as he ponders that he is not hungry and can't even remember having been hungry.
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Eating Optional / int_a235b21f	comment	The Case of Charles Dexter Ward: The protagonist confronts Ward after exploring the catacombs under his ancestor Joseph Curwen's farm. When he mentions the abominations that have gone unfed for the month since his commitment to the insane asylum, he replies:
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Eating Optional / int_a2467ad7	comment	Close to Your Heart: Cube finds her first meal with Blixer and Lycan interesting, and then asks why they're putting the stuff in their mouths. Blixer is beyond puzzled to learn that Cube has never eaten before, with the line of "How are you not dead?" Lycan guesses that she's immortal.
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Eating Optional / int_a32877f1	comment	Free Magic elementals in Old Kingdom don't need to eat, though many of them enjoy it. Mogget and the Disreputable Dog (Free Magic beings with the shape of a cat and dog, respectively) are generally fond of foods appropriate for their apparent species, and less pleasant entities may snack on people. Lirael is more than a little annoyed when she finds this out, given the trouble she had to go to to keep the Dog fed.
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Eating Optional / int_a4c8f35d	comment	Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth: Rei is a Big Eater. You will always see her talking about food of some kind even if the conversation has nothing to do with it. Tragically, it's because she's in denial. She's actually Dead All Along by the time you meet her, and eating is her way of convincing herself that she's alive.
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Eating Optional / int_a5549ed0	comment	The Bible: Jesus ate with his disciples after his resurrection to prove he was real and not a ghost or vision. The pre-resurrection Jesus did get hungry, as seen with the temptation in the wilderness, but after getting better he no longer needed to eat. Word of Dante is that Christian believers in Heaven will be able to eat as much as they like, but not actually need it nor need to worry about getting fat. Foodstuffs specifically mentioned as being available in Heaven include milk, honey, manna, wine, and of course bread.
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Eating Optional / int_a6543322	comment	Touhou Project: Several youkai races have this trait. According to the Universe Compendium Perfect Memento in Strict Sense, fairies don't need to eat but do so in an attempt to imitate humans. Magicians also don't need to eat. Alice Margatroid eats anyway, as she is a former human (at least according to the book) who became a youkai magician and still isn't used to not needing to. Hourai immortals technically don't need to eat, but not eating will eventually cause them to feel hunger pains, which can become unbearable if ignored long enough. Fujiwara no Mokou, for instance, feels it's more her style to just endure some pangs of hunger, but if it gets too out of hand, she will go and find something to eat.
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Eating Optional / int_a6ff5ff	comment	In Immortals After Dark, all races of immortals eat normal food as children, but some stop as they become fully immortal. Females are required to eat, however, if they wish to become pregnant, and presumably until they give birth. Among the non-eating races are vampires, Valkyries, and succubae/incubi.
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Eating Optional / int_a8d6bd09	comment	Superman of 2499: The Great Confrontation: Being a Superman's descendant, Alan Kent doesn't need to eat thanks to his Kryptonian DNA. He doesn't like dwelling on it, though, because it makes him feel less human.
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Eating Optional / int_ad6a095e	comment	Princess: The Hopeful: Princesses of Clubs have access to a Charm that suspends the need to eat or drink for as long as the Princess keeps spending a daily Wisp. Moreover, when the Princess lets the Charm lapse, she will be no hungrier or thirstier than when she first invoked it. On the other side of the War of Hope, Darkened with the Hunger Means Nothing Umbrum can no longer die of starvation or dehydration. Of course, being a power derived from the All-Consuming Darkness, this Umbrum comes with some nasty side effects. The Darkened can no longer taste food or derive nourishment from it, and though starvation won't kill him it will leave him weakened. In addition, a certain number of Darkspawn lurking in the Dark World beneath a Tainted Place can sustain themselves off the ambient Light leached from the world by the Taint.
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Eating Optional / int_b0c8849e	comment	Kid Radd: Sprites can eat and drink, though they won't suffer if they don't. Word of God explained that since sprites are human creations, they're imprinted with various human drives and habits.
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Eating Optional / int_b11e29d2	comment	Outlaw Star: Melfina is a highly advanced bio-android, created by Professor Gwen Khan. Even though eating isn't necessary to her vital function, she finds she enjoys certain foods, after being prompted by Jim to try some. She was even surprised to learn she could distinguish different tastes.
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Eating Optional / int_b2a229ec	comment	The Atomic Time of Monsters: The Kaiju don't have to eat or drink once they reach maximum size, as they get all the energy they need from Yamaneon, the Green Rocks that give them their powers.
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Eating Optional / int_b4fe32c9	comment	Invader Zim: Being a robot, GIR doesn't need to eat, but he does anyway out of enjoyment of Earth food.
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Eating Optional / int_b6d7b1e1	comment	That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Rimuru has no need to eat for sustenance, but as a former human, he still indulges in it once he figures out a way to overcome his inability to taste. In fact, this is a quite common among sufficiently evolved monsters or humans, as after a certain a point (such as becoming a primarily spiritual-based life-form) or beings already at that point, physical needs like consuming food become unnecessary to survive and is mainly done for pleasure. Veldora (a True Dragon) and Milim Nava (a True Demon Lord who is also the daughter of a True Dragon) are both noted to not require food, but they still eat because they love the taste of good meals.
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Eating Optional / int_b8e28f2e	comment	Good Omens (2019) makes it clear that neither angels or demons really need to eat, but both Aziraphale and Crowley do. Aziraphale in particular loves sushi. In the first episode Gabriel even calls him out for it, claiming it "sullies the temple of a celestial body" to eat human food. In fact, one of the arguments against Armageddon that Crowley uses on Aziraphale is that there are no restaurants in heaven.
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Eating Optional / int_b9b796cf	comment	In Fate/stay night and related material, Servants don't need to eat or drink, as they get all their sustenance from absorbing Mana or consuming souls. They are fully capable of eating, especially Saber (in fact, Saber has to eat because of her poor Mana supply from Shirou). In Fate/Apocrypha, Jack the Ripper's Master Reika insists on cooking meals for Jack. Jack gets confused and points out she doesn't have to eat, but tries it and enjoys it. However, Ruler actually has to eat because she is possessing the body of a woman named Laeticia.
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Eating Optional / int_bc1dc95a	comment	A few versions of this show up in Pirates of the Caribbean. In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Barbarossa's crew are cursed with this, as they are physically incapable of eating as food turns to ash when they do. Unfortunately for them, they don't need to eat anymore but still feel hunger pains. In the second and third movies, Davy Jones' crew also don't seem to need to eat. They might just eat fish, but considering that decapitation won't kill them, food is probably a non-issue.
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Eating Optional / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Most Tyranid organisms don't actually have a functioning digestive system, as they're bio-engineered killing machines and such a thing would take space and energy away from muscles, reinforced endo- and exoskeletons, weapon-biomorphs, etc. If they aren't killed by the enemy first, they will eventually starve to death. Many of them still have instinctive drives to feed, though, as it makes them attack the enemy even when not under control of the synapse creatures. The Ripper swarms are the most obvious example, as their whole purpose is to eat any biomass they come across in order to transport it to the reclamation pools to be digested and fed to the Tyranid hive ships. Organisms meant to operate away from the Hive Fleets for extended periods of time, such as Genestealers and Lictors, are also given digestive systems due to needing to be functional creatures instead of simply living weapons.
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Eating Optional / int_bdbcdadf	comment	Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!: Izuku's Kryptonian biology allows him to survive indefinitely without food for as long as he has access to yellow sunlight. But he still feels hungry and enjoys the taste of food. K.E.L.E.X. nags him over this, because it's technically a waste of time he could be spending training or studying and recommends fasting when Izuku complains. Izuku just ignores him and goes off to find lunch.
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Eating Optional / int_bdcd318c	comment	Son of the Sannin: The process that brought Rin Nohara Back from the Dead eliminated her need to eat food, though she still does so because she likes the taste. She does need to drink water, however.
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Eating Optional / int_be8ff20a	comment	Hope for the Heartless has an inversion in the form of the Horned King, who is a lich. He doesn't feel hunger like mortals do, but his body needs nourishment now and then like with mortals. However, since he lacks the sense of smell and taste, the mandatory act of eating is pleasant neither for him to experience nor others to witness. It is implied that he can require sustainment through other means, but those other options aren't available for him at any point.
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Eating Optional / int_c46f123f	comment	Apocalyptic Horseplay: One of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Femine, likes to hang out in the pub enjoying some pie. When Mot states that he doesn't need to eat, his answer is that he likes to. It appears that he's only one of Four doing that, so it might be connected to him being a personification of hunger.
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Eating Optional / int_c83a00e4	comment	Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton: After discovering her powers and her Kryptonian origin, Asuka realizes that she has never been hungry and thinks she probably does not need to eat because she is sun-powered. However, she likes food, so she keeps doing it.
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Eating Optional / int_c9b98f4e	comment	Empath: The Luckiest Smurf: In "Days of Auld Lang Smurf", the "resurrected" parent Smurfs are in a state of existence that they claim is better than that of the physical existence the Smurfs have, as Papa Smurf notices that they hardly even eat at all. As it turns out, though, they aren't really "resurrected", but rather memories given physical substance by Chlorhydris' Auld Lang Syne spell which was cast upon them, affecting only the Smurfs that actually had parents that died.
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Eating Optional / int_cf62f32b	comment	Ravirn: Cybermancy:
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Eating Optional / int_cfd860dd	comment	Nasuverse: In Fate/stay night and related material, Servants don't need to eat or drink, as they get all their sustenance from absorbing Mana or consuming souls. They are fully capable of eating, especially Saber (in fact, Saber has to eat because of her poor Mana supply from Shirou). In Fate/Apocrypha, Jack the Ripper's Master Reika insists on cooking meals for Jack. Jack gets confused and points out she doesn't have to eat, but tries it and enjoys it. However, Ruler actually has to eat because she is possessing the body of a woman named Laeticia. Tsukihime: The primary difference between the two classes of vampire, Dead Apostles and True Ancestors, is that the True Ancestors don't actually need to drink blood to survive, while the Dead Apostles do. True Ancestors feel a hunger for blood regardless, but if they do start drinking blood, they turn into psychotic, violent beings known as "Demon Lords", so they try as hard as possible to avoid it.
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Eating Optional / int_d11e211f	comment	Averted in Kamen Rider Gaim. Invess don't and can't eat earth food, but they can starve if stranded away from their home dimension. While they don't eat humans like mirror monsters, but a native fruit, they spread an aggressive plant and no less aggressive disease.
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Eating Optional / int_d120122a	comment	Fangire from Kamen Rider Kiva prey on human life force, but they don't need it to survive. It's just that they consider humans to too low under them on the food chain to bother with and it's what they can do and desire to do.
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Eating Optional / int_d2cd3b5e	comment	In Nomine: Angels and demons don't need to eat, although they often do so to maintain the Masquerade while on Earth, or, especially in the case of demons, because they like it.
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Eating Optional / int_d6942bf2	comment	Zombies in Marvel Zombies have no need to eat, but are driven by an insatiable, uncontrollable hunger to devour human flesh anyway. (Zombie flesh does nothing for the hunger and tastes absolutely awful to them.) After long enough without feeding — exactly how long is uncertain, but it's at least several years — the hunger will actually dissipate entirely.
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Eating Optional / int_d6c9c0a4	comment	It's mentioned in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex that full-body cyborgs don't need to eat, but novelty food and drink are made for those who want to recapture the experience, and can attune their cyber-brains to make it taste like the real thing. The fake food is still edible and nutritious, but tastes awful, at least to normal humans and to the Major. Batou on the other hand happily chows them down when he gets the chance.
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Eating Optional / int_d74c44a0	comment	The Utonium Trials: It's implied that the Powerpuff Girls don't need food (or at least they can go without food for longer than normal humans).
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Eating Optional / int_d7c4626a	comment	The Sandman (1989): Hob Gadling is made immortal because of a whim Morpheus had. When they meet during a period where Hob's life has had a dramatic downturn, he asks Morpheus if he has any idea just how hungry a man who can't die can become. He still chooses to continue, though.
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Eating Optional / int_dcdb5ca9	comment	Tsukihime: The primary difference between the two classes of vampire, Dead Apostles and True Ancestors, is that the True Ancestors don't actually need to drink blood to survive, while the Dead Apostles do. True Ancestors feel a hunger for blood regardless, but if they do start drinking blood, they turn into psychotic, violent beings known as "Demon Lords", so they try as hard as possible to avoid it.
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Eating Optional / int_df07d96e	comment	In an early episode of Lois & Clark, Lois asks Superman if he eats food, to which he answers "I don't have to, but I like to." Of course, if people never saw Clark Kent eating, that might begin to raise eyebrows.
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Eating Optional / int_e293455a	comment	In Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, vampires only need to drink blood, but some enjoy eating human food and drinking alcohol (for example, Spike likes onion blossoms and Weetabix, for starters). Vampires can get drunk, but in one episode, Angel clarifies that eating food will not help him survive, only drinking blood.
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Eating Optional / int_e2bb8bee	comment	The Cosmere: Elantris: The zombie-like Elantrians don't die from starvation but are even hungrier than normal. Every time a new Elantrian enters the city, the others jump him and fight over the small basket of food included in the funerary rites. The only reason they don't eat each other is that for some reason, Elantrian flesh tastes so horrible that not even the hungriest can keep it down. Warbreaker: The Returned only need one Breath (part of a person's soul) a week to survive, but most eat food anyway because food tastes good.
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Eating Optional / int_e381e71f	comment	Digimon Tamers: Ryo claims that you don't need to eat in the Digital World because you don't have a physical body that needs sustenance. You can eat if you want but it serves no purpose. Given that Jenrya and Takato manage to escape from a cave by deciding that they don't actually need to breathe air and could breathe water instead if they wanted, Ryo's probably right.
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Eating Optional / int_e4732abc	comment	Played with in Stargate Atlantis with the Wraith. They don't eat food, they "feed" on lifeforce through a sucker on their hands. While it functions essentially the same, it is its own distinct process. Though one 'cultured' Wraith is shown to enjoy eating regular food, he admits that he just savors the taste but gains no sustenance from doing so.
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Eating Optional / int_e5c5bc22	comment	GURPS has the Doesn't Eat advantage, which can be used to represent characters who can eat (to help blending in mostly) but do not have to.
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Eating Optional / int_e7410020	comment	A particularly horrifying example comes from Empowered. Willy Pete, a fire elemental, has stated that he doesn't need to eat, but he still likes to. However, he burns so hotly that almost anything he tries to eat turns to ashes when he tries. He gets around this by cannibalizing superbeings, because their flesh is just cooked nicely by him — and that's not even getting what else he does to them...
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Eating Optional / int_ea9fc779	comment	In Vexille, the nanite-transformed metallized humans still eat as a way of maintaining a semblance of normalcy in their lives, despite no longer needing food.
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Eating Optional / int_f0e2505e	comment	The Last Daughter: Taylor, a Kryptonian, doesn't need to eat as long as she has access to yellow sunlight.
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Eating Optional / int_fb9c177d	comment	Transformers: Unicron, a dark god in robot form, doesn't need to eat anything, being a god, but does it anyway. He's a particularly horrifying example too. He eats entire worlds because he hates everything in creation that isn't him.
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Eating Optional / int_fec92fec	comment	Paragon (Kitsune Heart): Much like Amethyst, members of Steven's crew like to eat even though they don't need to. Army of the four remaining members of the Ruby Squad is willing to try anything once; even when she declares a pepper disgusting, she still swallows it, and her first time eating a Cookie Cat was to slam her face into the bowl Steven had given it in and devour it in seconds.
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Eating Optional / int_ff3237ac	comment	Sunshine: Vampires can consume some non-blood substances, though it doesn't do much for them compared to blood. Constantine accepts a bit of water and raw beef when he's in rough shape from a long captivity; Rae is a bit put out that she can't indulge her Sweet Baker inclinations and feed him properly.
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Eating Optional / int_ff9ab17f	comment	In Star Trek: The Next Generation, Lt. Commander Data eats even though he does not have to, in order to more closely emulate human behavior.
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Claw & Warder / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
Delve / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
Diana Tregarde / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
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He Who Fights With Monsters / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
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Saintess Summons Skeletons / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
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Tommy Taffy / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
Under the Pendulum Sun / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
Today's Menu for the Emiya Family (Manga) / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
Rocher Hotel (Podcast) / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
CDT Space Liner (Roleplay) / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
Good Omens (2019) / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
Jul i Blåfjell / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
Stargate Atlantis / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
In Nomine (Tabletop Game) / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
Invisible Sun (Tabletop Game) / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
Numenera (Tabletop Game) / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot (Video Game) / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
HFIL (Web Animation) / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
Twisted Translations (Web Video) / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
Apocalyptic Horseplay (Webcomic) / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
Ask White Pearl and Steven (almost!) anything (Webcomic) / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
Close to Your Heart (Webcomic) / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
Damaged Goods (Webcomic) / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
Omens (Webcomic) / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
Seven Days In Silverglen (Webcomic) / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
Tales From The Golden Garden (Webcomic) / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
Castlevania (2017) / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
Gargoyles / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
Mega Man (Ruby-Spears) / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional
Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_563a542f	type	Eating Optional

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