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High-Class Cannibal

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High-Class Cannibal	comment	Sometimes you get to Eat the Rich. Other times, the rich eat you. Rich characters usually enjoy Conspicuous Consumption and have to screw over the poor and lower classes to be successful. Sometimes, that consumption is taken very literally and they eat human flesh. If they deliberately prey on those lower classes, expect it to overlap with Kill the Poor, though this is not necessarily the case. The cannibalism also doesn't need to be by choice, but it often is. The other association is with Snooty Haute Cuisine. After all, the logic goes that rich people eat so many weird things, so why would eating human flesh really be any different? Sapient Eat Sapient is virtually guaranteed to be in play when this trope comes up. Sapience is often needed to grasp the concepts of wealth and poverty in the first place. Plus, the ability for the wealthy cannibals to taunt their sapient dinner with their impending fate is too good to pass up. Contrast Devoured by the Horde, which can often involve a crowd (generally associated with the poor) eating another person. At times, it can overlap with Wicked Cultured, but it doesn't need to. Compare Vampires Are Rich, when another form of consumer is associated with wealth, and Exotic Entree, another type of food dish it's inherently evil to enjoy. It can also overlap with Consuming Passion, because rich suitors are generally portrayed as more attractive. Contrast Cannibal Tribe, which associates cannibalism with stereotypes of low culture and savagery. Frequently paired with Aristocrats Are Evil.
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High-Class Cannibal / int_2075d8af	comment	The The Hard Times spin-off Hard Drive has "Wealthy cannibal conflicted on 'Eat the Rich.'"
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High-Class Cannibal / int_36c89d24	comment	Hannibal: Dr. Lecter is a Man of Wealth and Taste, a Supreme Chef, and, of course, a cannibal who sneaks a lot of human flesh into his Fancy Dinners. It's all linked to his sense of superiority:
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High-Class Cannibal / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd., a club for the extraordinarily wealthy and utterly amoral, owned a table that transforms all food set on it into human flesh. It was introduced as a curiosity at Fancy Dinners but became popular enough to become a permanent installation. The log of anomalous items mentions an illegal South American restaurant that caught the eye of the Foundation by offering snow leopard, chimpanzee, woolly mammoth, human, and SCP-███ meat as Exotic Entrees. It apparently catered only to the very wealthy, as it once held an auction selling a strange egg from an unidentifiable species to a rich Chinese stockbroker for at least a million dollars. SCP-3288 are a collection of deformed humanoids descended from the royal Austrian Habsburg family. They kidnap "peasants" and take them to the sewers where they live and eat them.
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High-Class Cannibal / int_4ad89ce0	comment	Hazbin Hotel: Alastor was a cannibalistic serial killer when he was alive and he has not given up these habits now that he's in Hell. However, he's also an Affably Evil Southern Gentleman wearing a nice suit who places a high degree of importance on manners.
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High-Class Cannibal / int_4e152e8a	comment	Fallout: New Vegas: The White Glove Society are a tribe who run the Ultra Luxe casino, wear tuxedos and evening wear, indulge in fine dining and generally maintain an air of being a cut above the common savages of the wasteland. They were a Cannibal Clan at some point in their history, but were made to swear off that lifestyle as part of a contract with Mr House, owner of the New Vegas Strip where their casino operates. However, some of their members have reverted to "the old ways" and are trying to manipulate the rest into breaking the contract.
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High-Class Cannibal / int_5b95bc94	comment	Donald Love from Grand Theft Auto III is a wealthy businessman and has been photographed at a "morgue party". The prequel Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories confirms his cannibalistic tendencies with one cut scene showing him eating a clearly human corpse. One of his last missions involves stealing a couple of corpses (one of whom is Avery Carrington) to be eaten on his plane.
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High-Class Cannibal / int_5fcb54f2	comment	Fresh (2022): Steve is a wealthy doctor who always had a cannibalism fetish, then procured women for "the 1% of the 1%", cuts off their body parts and sells their meat to this sizeable network.
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High-Class Cannibal / int_6c9193a1	comment	In The Venture Bros. episode "The Unicorn in Captivity", Dr. Venture is invited to an Eyes Wide Shut-style sex-party hosted by a cabal of wealthy elites that (allegedly) control the world from the shadows. When Venture helps himself to party snacks, he is told that he is sampling "orphan patee", Venture nearly throwing up when told this.
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High-Class Cannibal / int_6ef778a2	comment	The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: Tigris and Coriolanus saw the Impoverished Patrician, Nero Price, cannibalize his maid during the Dark Days. He is still regarded as one of the most wealthy and important Capitol citizens, as is his daughter Persephone, to whom he's implied to have fed human meat without her knowledge.
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High-Class Cannibal / int_74149a97	comment	Hannibal Lecter of Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal fame, is a Wicked Cultured "Pure Sociopath" famed for eating people. He's arrested early in the first book for eating the "sweetbreads" (thymus and pancreas) of several people, including an annoying flute player, confesses to eating the liver of a census taker with Amarone in the second book, and in the last book, eats a man's brain while the poor fellow is still alive.
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High-Class Cannibal / int_7cb04bb5	comment	Inside No. 9: Feigned in "The Riddle of the Sphinx". Tyler forces Squires to eat a piece of Nina for revenge, to make it look as if the snooty Cambridge academic had lost his mind and believed that he was the Riddling Sphinx (who ate her victims).
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High-Class Cannibal / int_7fb63996	comment	The Fifth Season: During the Seasons when the planet becomes a Death World, it's a grim fact that "you don't ask about the meat". Some of the Sanzed elite, however, developed a taste and quietly continued the practice into peacetime, to the disgust of outsiders who know.
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High-Class Cannibal / int_8adae002	comment	I, Claudius: Caligula might be despised by everyone, but he is still the third emperor of Rome. He impregnates his sister, Drusilla, and eats the fetus. However, in opposition to Kill the Poor, Caligula does this because he fears the child will be more powerful than him (with the implication that he may believe he's absorbing the fetus's power by consuming it).
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High-Class Cannibal / int_91c50dee	comment	Society: Billy's family, and the rest of their Beverly Hills elite, are revealed to be a "variant" species who eat humans, or at least suck all the nutrients from their bodies. Billy was kidnapped from ordinary people and raised by a family of them for this express purpose.
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High-Class Cannibal / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: For Lord Ramsay Bolton's wedding to an impostor girl posing as "Lady Arya Stark", Lord Wyman Manderly has his cooks prepare three massive wedding pies the size of wagon wheels, filled with chunks of seasoned pork and vegetables swimming in a savory brown gravy. The "pork" is implied to be the flesh of Rhaegar, Symond, and Jared Frey, served up to their relatives and allies as retribution for the perfidy and heinous violation of Sacred Hospitality of the Red Wedding. Downplayed, though, as the Freys are a very important family, but are viewed as the odd one out of the Westerosi noble houses and uncouth by the other aristocrats.
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High-Class Cannibal / int_a9f1bdbe	comment	The Neon Demon: Jesse flees from the fleapit motel to a gorgeous mansion where Ruby is apparently housesitting. Ruby, Sarah. and Gigi then kill Jesse and cannibalize her for youth. It's left ambiguous how wealthy they really are, but it's a common theory that Ruby is much older than she seems and that was her house.
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High-Class Cannibal / int_af1d3eb7	comment	The Theatre Bizarre: The "Sweets" segment features a secret club of high class gourmets who regard dining on human flesh as the ultimate culinary experience.
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High-Class Cannibal / int_bbcd4e9b	comment	In Digital Devil Saga 2, those infected with the Demon Virus have to eat human flesh or go insane, but has the unexpected upside of being able to withstand the corrupted sunlight that turns organic matter to stone. Madame Cuvier's plan to save humanity from the sun is to infect her chosen elite with the Virus. Her chosen elite live idle lives in the apocalypse, blissfully unaware that Cuvier's canned meat is made from the people of the slums.
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High-Class Cannibal / int_c1e861db	comment	Played with in the Skeleton Crew story "Survivor Type". The narrator is an apparently great doctor who resorts to Auto Cannibalism out of desperation after being stranded by the sinking of a yacht. However, he repeatedly insists that this is proof of his much stronger will to live than ordinary people.
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High-Class Cannibal / int_d46ea355	comment	Evillious Chronicles: In the song "Evil Food Eater Conchita," a noblewoman named Conchita makes a deal with the Demon of Gluttony and becomes able to eat anything. Every night, she enjoys a supper consisting of the most disgusting, inedible dishes her chef can come up with. When her fifteenth chef asks to take a vacation, she eats him, and then proceeds to eat the rest of the servants. Finally, when no one is left, she declares, "There's still something I haven't eaten," and eats herself.
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High-Class Cannibal / int_dc00344f	comment	Parents: Downplayed. Nick and Lilly are a wealthy upper middle class couple who move their family to spotless suburbia, and they're also cannibals.
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High-Class Cannibal / int_dd1b673f	comment	In Eat the Rich, a disgruntled waiter kills the wealthy clientele of the high-end restaurant he works at and feeds them to the other patrons.
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High-Class Cannibal / int_e68decb8	comment	Star Control Origins: This is the general hat of the Phamysht, who are one of the only species in the game who show signs of high society: art, etiquette, etc. They are also cannibals who eat other intelligent beings. Alive and conscious. According to them, this is the highest form of fine dining in existence: to be able to talk to your meal as you consume it. You can take advantage of this by giving them a Remote Body to eat - they're willing to discuss some very important topics with their meals.
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High-Class Cannibal / int_f12b8f23	comment	The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover: Played with. Spica is an ignorant oaf lacking in class, but he's an extremely wealthy gangster and fancies himself an intellectual (especially where food is concerned). Georgina falls in love with Michael, who has a genuine appreciation for books and culture. Spica kills Michael when he learns of their affair, but Georgina gets her revenge by cooking Michael's body and forcing Spica to eat some of it at gunpoint. This is portrayed as Laser-Guided Karma not only for Michael's murder and Spica's violence, but more in keeping with this trope, due to Spica's mistaken belief that money makes him classy or cultured and his bullying desire to rub it in everyone's faces.
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High-Class Cannibal / int_f1d35e6c	comment	Atlanta: "Terrare" reveals that Van is involved in a particularly extreme version of French Cuisine Is Haughty, running hands backwards and forwards for an extremely fancy private chef who works for Alexander Skarsgård.
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High-Class Cannibal / int_f5f43e15	comment	Resident Evil Village: while Lady Alcina Dimitrescu needs to eat human flesh as a side effect of her mutation, the fact remains that she's a rich aristocrat who literally preys on her servants and appears to take sadistic pleasure in killing and eating people, torturing them to death slowly in the dungeons of her castle as well as making their blood into wine, and seems to view her victims as lesser compared to herself.
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High-Class Cannibal / int_fdf7a632	comment	Vampire: The Requiem: The Macellarius bloodline are Old Money even by vampire standards and claim to cultivate only the most rarefied tastes. Not content merely to drink human blood, they've also taught their undead bodies to digest flesh in tremendous excess.
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High-Class Cannibal	processingCategory2	Horror Tropes
High-Class Cannibal	processingCategory2	Rich People
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Fresh (2022) / int_822ae673	type	High-Class Cannibal
Parents / int_822ae673	type	High-Class Cannibal
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover / int_822ae673	type	High-Class Cannibal
The Neon Demon / int_822ae673	type	High-Class Cannibal
Inheritance Trilogy / int_822ae673	type	High-Class Cannibal
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes / int_822ae673	type	High-Class Cannibal
The Fifth Season / int_822ae673	type	High-Class Cannibal
Atlanta / int_822ae673	type	High-Class Cannibal
The Comic Strip Presents / int_822ae673	type	High-Class Cannibal
TV Tropes Superhero Team / Sugar Wiki / int_822ae673	type	High-Class Cannibal
Backbone (Video Game) / int_822ae673	type	High-Class Cannibal
Tails Noir (Video Game) / int_822ae673	type	High-Class Cannibal
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