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Ingesting Knowledge
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Why bother reading if you can just eat knowledge? This trope is about characters who, due to some Bizarre Alien Biology, Applied Phlebotinum, or simple artistic license, can have knowledge directly pumped into their brains by eating or somehow absorbing knowledge recipients such as books, computers or Magic Balls of Holding Knowledge. This however only applies to non-organic knowledge sources. If a character learns by ingesting Brains, that is simply Cannibalism Superpower, which not only is frowned upon by connaissance connoisseurs, it's also considerably more messy. See also Powers as Programs, for abilities instead of knowledge, and Instant Expert. A subtrope of Abstract Eater and, through that, of Fantastic Diet Requirement. Ingesting Knowledge is a common ability of the Literal Bookworm. |
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In The Meteor Man, the meteor can give someone the ability to temporarily absorb the contents of anything written by touch. At one point the main character uses it to quickly read and grade tests. | |
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Your character in Dungeons & Dragons Online used stat-enhancing books pretty much exactly like this until an update altered the ability. | |
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The entire premise of Chuck is that Chuck accidentally absorbs all knowledge of the CIA and NSA in a single night, and has flashes of said knowledge whenever he sees something related to them. | |
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Samsonite is a chemical invented by Samson Fandorin, an ancestor of Erast Fandorin in Boris Akunun's book "Quest". Drinking it lets the user hear a message from Fandorin. It can also contain general knowledge (in the novel, Russian language and culture). | |
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An Amazing Stories episode has a strange event cause an old janitor at a school suddenly gain the ability to absorb knowledge by being in a classroom, especially if something is written on the board. At the end, he runs into the middle of a football field at night. A flying saucer arrives and beams all that knowledge from him and leaves. | |
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Discworld: Gaspode the wonder dog claims to have picked up much of his knowledge through chewing books. The Books That Bite in Unseen University library have been known to eat each other. Many of the weird creatures in L-Space are implied to be infovorous as well. |
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In the novel Professor Mmaa's Lecture, the protagonists — termites — "read" human writing by eating the paper and remembering where they can taste the ink, then reciting the writing from memory. They also eat other thermites' associative substance (brains) to aquire their memories. | |
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In Crimestrikers the characters sometimes use edu-strips, which are modeled on the breath strips sold in drug stores and allow users to absorb information (or have secrets implanted in their minds) by swallowing them. | |
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The Wayward Vagabond in Homestuck learns human etiquette by eating a book on the subject. Although it's possible that he read it and then ate each page when he was finished with it. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, it takes a normal person years of training in order to be able to use the Thu'um. The Dragonborn, on the other hand, can become an Instant Expert by killing a dragon and devouring its soul, transferring the dragon's knowledge of the Thu'um into him/herself. It's possible to share this knowledge willingly as well, it's just that the dragons aren't willing. | |
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Adventure Is Nigh: Exiled prophet Latavia Ticklepuss dealt with the pain of banishment by creating the creature Oob, a thing somewhere between a Cute Slime Mook and Dem Bones, with the power to eat memories. He sends Oob out to collect happy memories from people and transfer them to himself, now fused with the Prime Oob (a decidedly less cute enormous mass of slime with multiple skeletons floating in it, which is stuck to his back). It's stated that Oob eats people's brains to get their memories. | |
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Carbosilicate amorphs in Schlock Mercenary evolved from data storage systems. They share memories by writing a copy into chosen piece of body, then exchanging and absorbing these. | |
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The Owl House: Echo Mice, small skull-headed rodents that live in the Bonesborough Library, eat books and can replay their information like a theater projector. | |
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Pathfinder: A witch's Familiar acts as a sort of living Spell Book, one of the ways they can learn new spells is by eating scrolls that contain spells. | |
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BlazBlue parodies and subverts this in Teach Me, Ms. Litchi! Reloaded. Tsubaki suggests this trope as a shortcut to reconstituting Taokaka's intellect from scratch, and offers up a dictionary for it. Makoto is not amused at the obvious results. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The Planescape setting introduced the darklore, a Blob Monster born when a powerful fiend fell into the memory-draining waters of the River Styx. Darklores can thus drain Intelligence from victims they strike with their pseudopods, absorbing forbidden secrets and vile knowledge to hoard — the location of a gate to the Lower Planes, the true name of an archfiend, details about an evil artifact, etc. Darklores can also reverse this process when striking Good or Neutral foes, potentially stunning them with a horrific revelation (and giving paladins a 1% chance of falling from grace). This means archfiends both fear and covet darklores, and have been known to capture the creatures to use as interrogators, or charm them to make darklores willingly share some of the secrets they've accumulated. | |
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It's just a way to keep prices up and intelligence stats coveted, but books in Neopets mysteriously disappear when you read them to your pet. | |
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Series Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe show several alien interfaces allowing human to access massive knowledge from a Precursors civilization. | |
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Chowder: Attempted by Mung Daal on Chowder. He tries to cram a stack of books in his head instead of getting him to study! Then he gives him a dish that makes Chowder super smart, so smart that he is able to break the 4th wall. | |
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In one chapter of Doraemon, Nobita eats a special kind of bread that lets him remember anything printed on it. It backfired due to the day before test is the day where Shizuka and also Nobita's family are inviting for feast, resulting in Nobita over-eating and in the next morning, have to eat the breads all over again after a bad toilet trip. | |
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In the first episode of Animaniacs (2020), Yakko manages to learn about everything that's happened in the past 22 years by swallowing a computer tablet like a pill tablet. | |
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In Gulliver's Travels, one project underway at the Academy of Lagado is a special ink "of a cephalic tincture." A fasting student, by eating a wafer inscribed in this ink with a mathematical proposition, will thereby learn the proposition as the tincture is digested. Unfortunately, most students find the ink nauseating to the point of vomiting it up before it can work. | |
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Parodied in The Simpsons comic book story where the people of Springfield decide to make it constantly daytime in a misguided attempt to revamp the economy. Lisa uses the extra hours to learn everything at the library. Eventually when a lack of sleep kicks in, she decides that it will be more efficient to simply eat the books instead. | |
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In Brave10, Rokuro has a Magical Eye that can absorb letters from a page and store the information inside it. With it he can also access people's memories and strip information from them. Naturally, it's so valuable a tool The Mole tries to steal it and he has to stab it out to protect all that knowledge. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist (2003): Scar somehow is able to absorb some of the investigations made by the Elric brothers related to the Laboratory Five. | |
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In The Dragon Knight, this is how Magickians use the Encyclopedia Necromantick Book Of Shadows. | |
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In The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, Jimmy creates Books chewing gum with this effect. It's dangerous to eat more than one at the same time, which Jimmy finds useful later. | |
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In another vision, the Book of Revelation, the narrator (who is by tradition the Apostle John) is told to do this, and he does. It's "sweet in his mouth, and bitter in his belly". | |
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The Bible: Happens in a vision in the Book of Jeremiah. In another vision, the Book of Revelation, the narrator (who is by tradition the Apostle John) is told to do this, and he does. It's "sweet in his mouth, and bitter in his belly". |
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In My Stepmother Is an Alien, the stepmother is shown opening books, laying her arm across the pages, and reacting to the contents. | |
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Motu Patlu: In "Robot of Furfuri Nagar", Motu tries to learn his robot's instructions by turning the manual into a soup and ingesting it, taking the referee's advice to "drink up" the information in the manual too literally. | |
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Trollhunters: One episode has Toby drink a potion called Elix-Lore, that causes words to fly off of books and into his mouth gaining its knowledge. He somewhat loses control and eats an entire library, he almost finds the information he was looking for but the previous info was too much and he uncontrollably vomits it out. | |
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Raven from Teen Titans. In one episode, a mage teaches her an ability to absorb (not literally) many books at the same time, as it's faster than reading them. | |
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Happens in a vision in the Book of Jeremiah. | |
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Rats SMP: Discussed on Day 1; it's claimed that Oliver the Lawyer Rat is smart and knowledgeable because whenever they eat a paper document, they absorb the information and knowledge printed on it. In reality, though, it's suggested that they read a lot while living in a lawyer's office before moving to the Mansion in canon. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: The Kroot are able to do this as a species, though their Shapers are the ones who decide what their kin should eat depending on the useful traits in their victims. Their spacefaring and mechanical abilities are believed to have resulted from ingesting ork DNA (who instinctively know how to build guns, and meks can build bigger things). A little-seen power of Space Marines is to gain the memories of things they eat. |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic Through the Eyes of Another Pony, Princess Luna has a spell that allows her to absorb all knowledge in any written document (destroying the document in the process). She later bites off more than she could chew by using this to absorb the internet. | |
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Martha Speaks: The title character is a dog uplifted this way by regularly eating alphabet soup. One episode leaves her stuck speaking Spanish because she ate a special Mexican flavor version. It becomes a plot of another episode where this stops working altogether because the company changed the recipe. And in yet another episode, the recurring villain who is always trying to dognap Martha covertly switches out her soup with the Polish version and then tries to claim that Martha is his dog from the old country. | |
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Book Girl: It's not used for information particularly (she mostly eats fiction), but the title character experiences books by eating them. | |
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One unique monster in Dungeon Crawl is a giant slug who absorbed a wizard's spells... by eating the wizard. | |
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Locke and Key: Physical objects can be stored in people's heads with the Head Key; if this is done with books, the person will know everything that is written in the book without having to read it. Tyler takes advantage of this to do well at school and impress a girl. | |
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One side comic of Looking for Group showed that the demon judge was hatched and ate a library's worth of law books just before the trial, and the judges are then killed after the trial to maintain objectivity. | |
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One episode of Charmed has Phoebe use a smart spell that allows her to absorb the knowledge of a book by waving her hands over it. When this happens, the pages flip by themselves and there's the sound of whispering, as if the worlds were being spoken sotto voce. | |
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Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Back when he was an assistant to Gregory Edgeworth, Raymond Shields would write down information in his notepad, then immediately tear out and eat the page, claiming it helped him remember what he wrote down better. | |
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