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In comedy works, it sometimes happens that a character will attempt to summon their minions, reveal a surprise character/animal/pet, or use a creature-based attack, only to have said minions/mooks/critters show up dead or incapacitated. Why? Because the character forgot to feed them or otherwise pay for their upkeep. This trope is frequently a parody, is almost always Lampshaded, and is often used as a form of Deconstruction applied to other tropes, such as Zerg Rush, We Have Reserves, Summon Magic, and animal-based weapons or Death Traps such as Bee-Bee Gun or Shark Pool, particularly if the villain makes a point of starving them to "keep them hungry". When it happens, it's usually to the Miser Advisor, Jerkass, Cloudcuckoolander, or The Ditz characters, as they're presumably the kinds of people who would be too flaky or too cheap to feed the minions. The Butt-Monkey or Cosmic Plaything may also suffer this fate as a natural consequence of the universe screwing with them. When it happens to an Evil Overlord, it can be a result of incompetence on the part of the Minion with an F in Evil. Sub-Trope of Lethal Negligence. Compare It Works Better with Bullets, and Surprisingly Realistic Outcome. Contrast Infinite Supplies, Offscreen Villain Dark Matter, Perpetual-Motion Monster. A good source of Mook Depletion. A subtrope and subversion of Crazy-Prepared. |
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Subverted in Shin Megami Tensei IV. According to legend, King Aquila decreed that no Samurai may enter the Land of the Unclean Ones, and had a powerful demon guard the way. Since this was almost 1500 years ago, when the party enters the demon's chambers and sees nothing, Walter suggests that it wasted away. Cue Wake-Up Call Boss. | |
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In The Thrilling Adventure Hour episode "Sarcophagus Now", Frank and Sadie Doyle visit an ancient pyramid where, among the death traps, is a room with hundreds of snakes. It would be quite frightening, were it not for the fact the snakes have been dead a very long time. | |
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Inverted in Sluggy Freelance, where failure to give Satan's feline offspring milk on a daily basis results in them becoming extremely dangerous, and they're otherwise docile. The entire plot of the first K I T T E N all started because one of their caretakers switched from the real deal to a soy-based substitute; the sequel involved a government conspiracy depriving the town of milk so they could reproduce the conditions of two years ago. | |
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Played straight in the fifth season of Angel, when Illyria returns to Vahla'hanesh to get her demonic army. She's been dead so long they have all crumbled to dust. | |
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The Simpsons has done this at least three times. Mr Burns orders the assembly of his League Of Evil, and opens a hidden door to a meeting room... only to reveal the long-dead skeletons of an outlaw cowboy, a Nazi officer, a Saracen, a samurai lord and a Mad Scientist. Disco Stu's, er, aquarium-shoes. A Halloween special parodies Dr. Seuss with Homer as the "Fat in the Hat". |
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One episode of Horrible Histories covered Tudor medical treatments. One of them involved covering live spiders in butter and feeding them to the sick victim. They were about to try it, but couldn't, because they forgot to feed the spiders. | |
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Keeping your pet(s) fed in NetHack is important (and fortunately quite easy). Feeding them treats will train them to fetch. Also, being separated from your pet(s) (on a different level) for too long will lead to them going feral. Yet Another Stupid Death is being killed by a former pet. | |
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In Wintersmith, Roland and the Nac Mac Feegle travel to a disused Underworld to rescue the Summer Lady, and find the skeleton of a three-headed dog that had apparently starved to death. | |
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Used twice in 8-Bit Theater — first when Bikke tries to attack the Light Warriors with his pirate minions, only to discover that they are all dead or dying of scurvy because he was too cheap to buy supplies. Later happens to Thief, who forgot to feed his lawninja. | |
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Chainmail Bikini plays with this. On the one hand, besieging the goblins' cave and starving them out so you can sell them trail rations is a perfectly good Take a Third Option. Too bad the quest is to "recover the pigs stolen by the goblins," and they were being kept in the cave. Of course, it took Marcus to point this out to the GM... | |
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The Mane Six get a warning about a giant monster in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW). They eventually encounter said monster's remains, noting that the Evil Overlord forgot to feed it. | |
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Also used dramatically in The Dementia of Magic: When Matt sees all sorts of dying monsters in the dungeon, he correctly guesses the evil sorceress that has been harassing and taunting him is not that competent. | |
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Any time GOB performs an illusion involving animals in Arrested Development. | |
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The Pink Panther: One story featured the Pink Panther trying to deliver a package to a fort in the desert. A bandit steals it and runs into a cave. When Pink enters the cave, the bandit threatens to release a dragon. Said dragon turns out to be really tiny and Pink theorizes the bandit forgot to feed vitamins to him. | |
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SCP-4290 is an Eldritch Abomination imprisoned by a succession of precursor civilizations and after ten thousand years, the mystical barriers are failing. When they finally break all the way, it turns out that SCP-4290 starved to death approximately nine thousand years ago. | |
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Discworld: In Wintersmith, Roland and the Nac Mac Feegle travel to a disused Underworld to rescue the Summer Lady, and find the skeleton of a three-headed dog that had apparently starved to death. In Sourcery, there's a sequence where the Grand Vizier attempts to find a way of killing/torturing Rincewind, but keeps being told there's something wrong with the device. For example, when he suggests throwing Rincewind in a cage with a tiger, he's told the tiger is ill. They then resolve to throw him in the Snake Pit, which may be an example of this also because it only contains one snake, which is rather tame and doesn't attack anyone. |
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A variation in The B-Movie Comic: The Big Bad of the second movie sends sharks with Frickin' Laser Beams after the heroes, only forgetting that a shark can only live underwater... | |
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The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: In Beeman's interlude, here. "Wait, how long ago did I load this?" | |
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In The Big Bang Theory, Howard is preparing to do a magic show when he finds an old trick in his closet involving a metal tin and a live dove. When he opens the tin, feathers fly out and the sight makes him retch. | |
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Penny Arcade once demonstrated the trope with a Pokémon. | |
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DuckTales: In "From the Confidential Casefiles of Agent 22!", a flashback to the 60's had Scrooge and Mrs. Beakley explore a booby trapped island, which included a pool full of piranhas. In the present, Scrooge and Webby go to the island, and they find that the piranha have all died. Scrooge complained that having to wade through a pool of dead piranhas was even worse than when they were alive. | |
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In Wormy, the "Siege of the Iron Keep" wargaming set that Wormy had ordered took four months to be delivered. Unfortunately, the enclosed playing pieces had only been provided with six weeks of rations. | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: A Donald Duck comic has him team up with a retired super spy in order to stop his old nemesis from returning. They eventually end up captured by said nemesis and are dropped into a Shark Pool which turns out to contain nothing but bones. Leaving your Elaborate Underground Base unattended for 20 years tend to cause such issues. | |
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As of 2012, herbivorous animals in Dwarf Fortress need to graze in a pasture, or they will starve to death. The mechanics of this are still pretty wonky, and several larger animals literally cannot eat fast enough to keep from starving. So much for your army of war elephants. | |
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In The Sims and its sequels: It is possible, albeit difficult, to starve your Sims to death by neglect. The difficult part is because the poor things will try anything to feed themselves until the fridge runs out of food and they're too broke to order pizza, unless you intentionally trap them in a room with no doors. Attempt this on a child, however, and a Social Services worker will come to take them away. Dogs and cats in the games are treated like infants/children or infants, toddlers, and children depending on what version you are playing (apparently Child Services doesn't care about teens), but fish and other small animals can be starved if you forget to feed them. Also the University expansion for the second game lets you get a "cowplant", if you "forget" to feed the cowplant it will set out a cake-shaped lure on its tongue, which will attract non-household sims on the lot, which will then be eaten by the plant. Needless to say many many players will use the cowplant to get rid of non-player sims they don't like. Especially since the plant produces milk that will make the sim that drinks it younger. And some sims want to "drink" sims they don't like. The plant returns in The Sims 3, behaving much the same as the last game, with some improvements, and as of the fourth game in the series, you can indeed forget to feed the Cowplant, and, upon being unable to catch Sim prey by itself for twelve ingame hours, it will waste away into a lifeless skeleton. In The Sims Medieval, YOU can forget to feed the monster! Specifically, there's a huge tentacled beast used to execute Sims, and Spies and Knights are frequently assigned "Feed the Beast" as a responsibility. Sadly, they can only throw meat in, not Sims. And if they do literally forget to do it, the monster doesn't seem to suffer any ill effects. On the other hand, there is a quest where you have to cure the Beast of an illness. |
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Mentioned in The Two Sides of Daring Do. While exploring an ancient temple, the heroes avoid a trap that would have dropped them into a Shark Pool. AK Yearling asks how in the world the sharks are still alive. | |
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In Mass Effect 2, the captain's cabin on the Normandy 2 features a huge aquarium that you can fill with fish. And if you forget to feed them between missions, you'll be refilling it with fish, over and over and over again. This problem is cured in Mass Effect 3, wherein you're able to purchase an automatic fish feeder for your aquarium. Back in 2, Kelly Chambers will do it for you if you ask nicely. |
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This problem is cured in Mass Effect 3, wherein you're able to purchase an automatic fish feeder for your aquarium. | |
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During the Ardolis Pirate Trials in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, one stage has the titular duo face a Grunthor named Snoojax... as a skeleton. The pirate hosting the trials then admits that the stage is "out of order". | |
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In an episode of Garfield and Friends, Jon digs a top hat out of a trunk while mentioning that he hasn't practiced the trick in 20 years. He then reaches into the hat and pulls out a rabbit skeleton, to which Garfield remarks, "Maybe you should've fed the rabbit." | |
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Brickleberry had Woody Johnson trying to come up with ideas to keep the new Secretary Of the Interior from firing him, and tries to summon a group of Oompa Loompas to help him. | |
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Averted in Nintendogs: If you neglect to feed your dog, eventually it will simply "run away." But it returns no worse for wear (if a little dirtier) soon afterwards. | |
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In Knights of the Dinner Table, this serves as the basis for the classic "Bag Wars" arc. Brian, while checking the list of what his character is keeping in his bag of holding, discovers a complement of hirelings he had placed in there and forgotten about. When he investigates, he discovers that the hirelings have used the resources of the bag to build a keep and declare themselves an independent nation. Writer Jolly Blackburn claims this storyline was inspired by an actual incident in one of his games where a player hid hirelings in a bag of holding in order to smuggle them into an enemy stronghold and then forgot about them. | |
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Defied in the miniseries Thessaly: Witch for Hire. The title witch is revealed to have captured or enslaved several monsters over the centuries. When her would-be suitor Fetch accidentally makes her a target for a seemingly invulnerable beast, she decides to let most of these monsters go because she doesn't expect to survive her encounter with the beast, and thinks it would be cruel to let her assorted captives die. | |
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The Pony POV Series has this happen in Dark World as a Shout-Out to The Simpsons example. After Traitor Dash and the Valeyard have been beaten, Discord orders Fluttercruel to summon his League of Auxiliary Minions...only to discover, even though he made them The Ageless, he'd forgotten to provide a way for air to get into the room and they all died. It later turns out that Angry Pie killed them all in a Mama Bear rage when they tried to rape one of her foals. | |
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In Good Omens, the angel Aziraphale finds a dead bird lurking in his old, disused magician's coat. Oddly, it's the demon Crowley who restores the bird's life and sets it free. | |
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Dark Legacy Comics: The Ditz tries to keep a turkey safe just before thanksgiving, so he builds a wall around it and guards it for a week. | |
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Right Now Kapow plays this for laughs in a single sketch. The Villain has captured the heroes and hung them over a giant tank filled with sharks that he starved just for the occasion. The silhouette of a shark appears in the water but quickly sinks to the bottom of the tank along with several others indicating their death and prompting one of the captive heroes to ask how long it has been since the sharks were fed. | |
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The Venture Bros.: The Monarch had a trap in his lair which consisted of releasing a horde of "man-eating butterflies"... except he forgot to feed them, so Brock just had several hundred dead butterflies dumped on his head. The Monarch then berates his henchmen for the mistake. On a related note, at one point Dr. Venture is going through his mail, and opens a package containing a coiled cobra, poised to strike, and the words "Die, Dr. Venture!" written in blood. After a moment, the snake crumbles into dust, at which point he checks the postmark, realizing a) the package has been on his desk for years, and b) "I really have to get my shit together." |
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One of the bosses of that long-forgotten NES game Monster Party apologizes when you enter its room: "Sorry, I'm dead." Lets Player DeceasedCrab takes his name from this boss. | |
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In a variant, one of the Magic: The Gathering tie-in novels had an ancient (and slightly senile) wizard summon up a vicious unnatural horror he remembered from his youth — only to get a heap of dusty bones. This prompted him to think something along the lines of "Has it really been so long?" | |
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Invoked by Ramsay Bolton and his attack dogs in Game of Thrones, since starving them will make them more desperate and therefore more violent and ravenous when they're unleashed. This ends up literally biting him in the ass when he's defeated and gets his own dogs sicced on him; he says they're loyal and won't harm him, but since they're starving, said loyalty takes a backseat to their hunger. | |
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In Critical Role, the Mighty Nein are exploring some ancient ruins and a trap is triggered that summons a swarm of venomous snakes. While in most Dungeons & Dragons games, this would be the cue for a battle, this trope is invoked instead; all the snakes are dead. | |
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A slightly more family-friendly variation happens in real-life to Animal Crossing games. If you forget to visit every so often, you start to lose your town to the inexorable decay of time — without maintenance, buildings become dilapidated, fields are overgrown, belongings rot, and townsfolk leave. No one actually dies, but your village is little more than a ghost town by that point. | |
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The comic book adaptation of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis features this (somewhat surprisingly, given the franchise's general use of Durable Deathtrap). Indy and Sophia fall into a pit of alligator skeletons, which are of course long dead due to the temple being abandoned for millenia, prompting Sophia to remark that it isn't really much of a deathtrap anymore. | |
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In Drowtales, Kiel'ndia has been feeding her friend Naal'suul, who succumbed to her demonic taint earlier in the story, for years in her hiding place under their old school. When she runs off to another city for a few chapters she gets back and realizes Naal hasn't eaten in days, so she promptly heads back to fix this. When she gets there Naal attacks her and then goes on a rampage. Ironically, this ultimately saves Kiel and possibly the entire world, as it results in Naal being present when Kiel's "Big sister" Kharla'ggen loses control after she's forcibly merged with a Demon God and is this close to mind-controlling Kiel too before Naal jumps in to try and eat Kharla, ultimately leading to both her and Kharla's demise. | |
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Asterix: One story has Asterix and Obelix thrown to wild beasts, who've been starved for a few days to make them nice and vicious. They take so long in actually getting on scene, however, that the only animal visible is a happy-looking lion with a very distended belly. | |
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The Dreadful does this in #059. | |
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In AdventureQuest Worlds, Grimskull, the master of a sadistically devious labyrinth filled with evil instakill traps, has a Villainous Breakdown upon finding out that Raxgore, the unstoppable juggernaut he intended to send after you, has starved to death due to not having been fed in ten years, and that all the necromancers that could have raised him as undead had been eaten by Binky, his man-eating unicorn and one of the most brutal bosses you will likely face. | |
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In one Daredevil story arc, the hero ends up in an old mansion converted into a gigantic house of DEATH. At one point, he gets thrown into a tube and ends up in a pool... which, due to lack of maintenance, features a half-empty base, and a suffocating shark. | |
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In Sourcery, there's a sequence where the Grand Vizier attempts to find a way of killing/torturing Rincewind, but keeps being told there's something wrong with the device. For example, when he suggests throwing Rincewind in a cage with a tiger, he's told the tiger is ill. They then resolve to throw him in the Snake Pit, which may be an example of this also because it only contains one snake, which is rather tame and doesn't attack anyone. | |
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The Jungle Book: Mowgli falls into a treasure hoard guarded by an ancient albino cobra. However, the cobra is so old it has no venom left. | |
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There was an incompetent Mad Scientist Dr. Fishtein in Górsky & Butch. All his death traps involved some kind of predatory fish, always dead because he kept forgetting about water... | |
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In the first book of the Jedi Academy Trilogy Han and Chewie are thrown in a cage on Kessel with a massive, rotting Rancor corpse. The crime lord who owned it then reminisces about the entertainment it provided before one of his minions forgot to feed it. | |
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Averted in Erfworld: If you fail to pay the upkeep, the unit disappears, and the leader is normally given a psychic indicator that their forces have decreased from starvation. If the leader doesn't get such an update, then that's usually due to "Carnymancer" trickery and the ignored death is intentionally orchestrated. | |
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In one story arc, Bruno the Bandit is planning to kidnap a girl for ransom and begins to reflect on the first time he tried something like that only to come to a sudden realization. Cut to them in the attic observing the Bound and Gagged skeleton of Bruno's first ransom attempt. | |
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Family Guy loves this trope. In one instance, Peter reveals he'd been saving a pony for an easy way to cheer up Meg when needed. Opens the closet, sees its skeleton. A similar thing occurs in another episode where he stashed party balloons, streamers, and a clown on the chance where he was finally right about something. |
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In a sketch from John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme parodying heist movies, this is how the crew got past one of the security features: a wolf that hasn't been fed for five weeks, and is constantly being prodded by a robotic arm to keep it annoyed. | |
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In The Sims Medieval, YOU can forget to feed the monster! Specifically, there's a huge tentacled beast used to execute Sims, and Spies and Knights are frequently assigned "Feed the Beast" as a responsibility. Sadly, they can only throw meat in, not Sims. And if they do literally forget to do it, the monster doesn't seem to suffer any ill effects. On the other hand, there is a quest where you have to cure the Beast of an illness. | |
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In an episode of Drawn Together it's revealed that the housemates have a dog named Thirsty. The camera then cuts to the skeleton of a dog chained to a doghouse where the chain was slightly too short for the dog to reach his water dish. | |
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Subverted in the H.P. Lovecraft story The Dunwich Horror, where the monster escapes from its prison when its brother, Wilbur Whateley, fails to return to feed it after being mauled to death by a guard dog. | |
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One woman on an episode of Fatal Attractions (2010) was attacked by her pet tigers because she could no longer afford to feed all of them and had to resort to scrounging for roadkill. | |
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