Guess the snake wasn't interested in eating the lollipop.
Eda: Oh no, Tibbles, that's not how entertainment works. The bad guy always gets their just desserts.
[Eda pours caramel crabapples onto Tibbles.]
Tibbles: Oh no, not desserts!
[Eda pours caramel crabapples onto Tibbles.]
Tibbles: Oh no, not desserts!
A villain ultimately finds their evil deeds come back to bite them. Literally — they end up getting eaten.
This does not include a Heroic Sacrifice. But may be subverted with a minor character being killed and eaten in obvious foreshadowing of what is going to happen to one of the bads at some point. While Mooks may be recipients of the Just Desserts, a true Just Dessert is reserved for those higher up the ladder. If the beast doing the eating was unleashed by the guy who gets eaten, he's been Hoist by His Own Petard, making him a Self-Disposing Villain. Bonus points if he made a practice of feeding people to said beast beforehand.
The trope name is a play on the phrase "just deserts" (which means the consequences that one rightly deserves, hence the single 'S'). And as you know, a dessert gets eaten at the end.
Compare Karmic Death, The Dog Bites Back, Devour the Dragon, Laser-Guided Karma. Also, see Exit, Pursued by a Bear where this trope is frequently implied.
WARNING: This is a Death Trope. Here Be Spoilers.
Examples:
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Anime & Manga
- The Immortals of Baccano! can consume each other and gain each other's experience by laying their hand on the other immortal's forehead. This is how Firo defeats Szilard.
- Digimon Adventure has chief minion Demidevimon get devoured by his master Venom Myotismon after he decides coming back from the dead has made him hungry.
- In Digimon Fusion, Chuuchuumon, a rat puppet Digimon, grew large after seeing Taiki, Mervamon, Wisemon, and Knightmon who were coming to rescue Yuu. Taiki summoned Bastemon, a cat-like Digimon, who then gained a Slasher Smile after seeing the mouse. This is a rare case where the one who devours is very, very small compared to the "dessert".
- In Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), Dante gets eaten by her minion Gluttony at the end of the series. For bonus points, she's the one who rendered him crazed and mindless in the first place, meaning that he was willing to eat her because he could no longer understand her commands, nor remember her.
- In The Garden of Sinners, Cornelius Alba gets eaten alive by one of Touko's creations.
- Mother Carmel in One Piece is heavily implied to have been eaten by Linlin, one of the orphans she was raising with the intent of selling them off as soldiers. This example wasn't intentional on Linlin's part: she was treated to a feast for her birthday and lost herself in her hunger, eventually regaining consciousness only to find everyone missing.
- In Toriko, has two notable examples: in the Ice Hell arc, near the end, Bishokukai members Barry Gammon and Bogey Woods try to run away from the final confrontation, leaving their superior Tommyrod alone against Toriko and are promptly devoured by the Hellbroth awakened by Teppei though they're later saved by another member of the Bishokukai. Played more straight with Shigematsu, who's sent flying by Toriko's Infinite Spiked Punch and is ultimately tore apart and devoured alive by some monstrous flying birds, though his last thoughts are that he's actually grateful that at least his body could feed the Nature as a way to make amend.
- This happens to Aki's Evil Mentor Divine in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds. His sadistic career comes to an end when Earthbound God Ccarayhua swallowed him. (Word of God says that he recovered along with the rest of the Earthbound Gods' victim's later, but he was also arrested by Sector Security).
Comic Books
- Wolfsbane had an abusive bigot of a father by the name of Reverend Craig, whose sadistic career came to an end when the brainwashing that he inflicted upon her kicks in, and she mistakes him for the Angel, whom he had ordered her to kill; she lunges at him in her wolf-form, in a bestial state, killing and devouring him. She doesn't remember a thing when she recovers, and her teammates wisely decide to keep it a secret.
- Black Moon Chronicles: After Haazheel Thorn's defeat his soul is devoured by his father Lucifer for failing to deliver the Earth to him. Especially karmic because Haazheel planned to have the rest of humanity harvested by the Legions of Hell so that he could become a god.
- The Ultimates (2015): Rostdvow, a "thing" serving the Big Bad, is eaten by Galactus so the big guy can learn what it knows. Given Rostdvow had just played party to corrupting Galactus, driving his previous hunger to such levels Galactus was near mindless, it also counts as Laser-Guided Karma.
- Wonder Woman:
- Wonder Woman (1987): Some of the Sangtee Empire slavers on Hope's End get knocked into the scavenger worm's sandpits, where they're devoured by the monsters they've been tossing dead slaves to.
- Wonder Woman (2006): Alkyone gets eaten by one of the Megalodon off the coast of Themyscira. In a subversion of the usual outcome of this trope, she actually ends up surviving and cutting her way out of the giant shark to continue to wreak havoc on the Amazons.
Fairy Tales
- In Joseph Jacobs' version of "The Three Little Pigs", the third pig does not stop at boiling the wolf to death, but also eats him ("for supper"). As the wolf wanted to eat the pigs, this is also a Karmic Death.
Fan Works
- 3 Slytherin Marauders: This happens to a Death Eater who attacks a dragon that had befriended Harry Potter, though the dragon later claimed that the Death Eater gave her indigestion.
- Dungeon Keeper Ami: As a result of several events, Ami drinks her enemy, a Lesser Aspect of Crowned Death.
- In The Rise of Darth Vulcan, the protagonist defeats a dragon, and feeds it to his new Red Shirt Army. Said dragon had been eating them as punishment for insubordination.
- In one of the side-stories of Danse Macabre, a Lethifold eats Peter Pettigrew.
- The main antagonist of Loved and Lost, Jewelius, is finished off this way by the Changelings he used and double-crossed to steal Equestria's throne. Normally the Changelings feed on love, but Queen Chrysalis decides that since the heart of Jewelius holds no love, everything else will have to do.
- Andraya, one of the two main villains of Heart of Ashes, is swallowed whole by Smaug after the witch crosses the dragon one too many times. As soon as Andraya is sucked into Smaug's stomach, she's incinerated by his natural fire.
- In Dragon Ball Z Abridged, Guru is Eaten Alive by the Namekians after he reveals he was the cause of the Great Drought (how else would someone who lives solely on water become morbidly obese?), which he then blamed on the Albino Namekians and sentenced them all to death.
Films — Animation
- Shrek movies:
- In the first film, Lord Farquaad gets eaten by Dragon.
- This is stated to be what the ogres intend for Rumpelstiltskin in Shrek Forever After just before the Reset Button is hit, and thus it never actually happens.
- A Bug's Life: Hopper is fed to a bird's chicks. This happens to be the same bird that attacked the heroes earlier.
- Scar survives his Disney Villain Death in The Lion King (1994), only to find himself cornered by the hyenas he just threw under the bus, who promptly eat him alive.
- Ice Age: Continental Drift: While his precise fate is left ambiguous, Captain Gutt is implied to end up being eaten by predatory lungfish.
- Indicated to be Madame Medusa's final fate in The Rescuers. They don't show her being eaten, but the very last we see of her is her struggling to hold onto a half-sunken mast with her abused crocodiles, Bruto and Nero, hungrily snapping at her heels.
- The Thief and the Cobbler: Zigzag is eaten by crocodiles and his own pet vulture, Fido.
- Chester V gets gobbled up by a cheespider in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2.
- Big Boss from Rio 2 gets swallowed by a boa constrictor. Who then burps up the lollipop he offered him.
- In Asterix film Asterix Conquers America, secondary antagonist Lucullus is Swallowed Whole offscreen by a black panther that somehow got loose in the shenanigans that end the movie. Caesar, being more pragmatic and considerably less obese, is faster on his feet and wisely makes a subdued but hasty exit amid all the commotion.
- In The Stinger of Trolls, Chef and Creek are both eaten by a monster.
- Subverted in Disney's Peter Pan: Captain Hook falls into the crocodile's mouth and gets swallowed, but (unlike in the original play) runs out relatively unharmed, and is last seen swimming away from the predator who's trying to eat him a second time. The sequel explicitly shows him alive.
Films — Live-Action
- Anaconda
- Anaconda: Paul Sarone gets eaten by the same Anaconda that he was hunting for most of the movie, and to make it even more karmic this is right after a failed attempt to feed two of the heroes to the giant snake.
- Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid: Jack eventually becomes a villain when he considers the lives of his colleagues worth sacrificing to get the Blood Orchid. He gets bitten by the paralyzing spider that he had previously used on somebody else and falls into the Anaconda mating ball, becoming snake chow.
- Subverted in Beetlejuice. The title character is swallowed by a Sand Worm near the end of the movie but turns up later in the afterlife office none the worse for wear.
- The Blob (1988): Dr. Meddows, who is responsible for creating the Blob and is also willing to sacrifice an entire town full of innocent people to test the Blob's potential and capture it, ends up becoming one of his own creation's meal.
- Burning Bright: John buys the tiger and tries to use it to kill his stepchildren. He ends up getting attacked and Eaten Alive by the same tiger when he comes back to the house.
- During the climax of The Cabin in the Woods, the System Purge releases all of the monsters that proceed to slaughter the Organization members. During the rampage, an Organization member is tossed into the air and devoured by a giant cobra. Some guards are mobbed by zombies that pour en masse out of an elevator. And Steve Hadley, one of the film's pair of bad guys, is killed and partially eaten by the merman, the very monster he wanted to see in action.
- Cast a Deadly Spell: The Big Bad who summons Cthulhu is grabbed and eaten by him.
- In City of Ember, Mayor Cole gets eaten by a giant star-nosed mole.
- Day of the Dead (1985): Captain Rhodes, after being a deranged tyrant for most of the movie, meets his end at the hands of a zombie horde that messily rips apart and devours him.
- Daybreakers: Bromley is ripped limb from limb and devoured by his own vampire minions after he is turned back into a human against his will.
- Koobus in District 9 is ripped apart and eaten by a gang of aliens near the end of the film.
- In Dune (1984), Baron Harkonnen meets his end when swallowed by a titanic sandworm.
- In the film Eaten Alive! (1976), Judd gets eaten by his pet crocodile, Rocky, that he fed people to.
- In the climax of Dude, Where's My Car?, Jerk Jock and minor antagonist Tommy cat calls the alien giantess, the movie's Big Bad, so she devours him right in front of his friends and girlfriend.
Tommy: "So do you spit or swallow? Hey, what are you doing?!"
- In Hook, at some point after the events of Peter Pan, Captain Hook had somehow successfully killed the crocodile that always chased him around, and had it stuffed and turned into a time piece. During the movie's climax however, the croc was knocked over during the fight between Hook and Peter, and it landed in a way that its mouth engulfed Hook. All was silent until the croc seemingly belched.
- In I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, Professor Frankenstein tries to put his creation back into pieces for some easy overseas smuggling, but the teenage monster fights back and drops him into the alligator pit that Professor had previously used to get rid of excessive body parts and a witness.
- Indiana Jones:
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: Mola Ram is eaten by crocodiles.
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: The Dragon gets eaten by siafu ants.
- Jurassic Park is a film series about dinosaurs, so it’s no surprise that this is how they deal with evil characters:
- Jurassic Park: Sysadmin Dennis Nedry sets off the chain of events that releases the animals, and then is eaten by one. This is actually a bad thing for the protagonists, because he was supposed to return after smuggling the embryos and turn the security system back on, but you can't return from death...
- Also in the first movie, they're not truly villains, but the raptors themselves become prey for the T-Rex at the climax.
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park: Dieter Stark is devoured by a group of Compsognathus, and Ludlow gets eaten by a T. rex baby in a satisfying death.
- Jurassic World: Hoskins gets ripped to shreds by one of the raptors he sought to breed as a weapon and becomes her dinner. Later, the Indominus Rex is dragged to her doom by the Mosasaurus.
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: Wheatley gets eaten by Indoraptor, after ripping his arm and eating it in front of him, as are several mercenaries and buyers for the dinosaur auction. Rexy, on the other hand, gets to feast on Mills.
- Jurassic World Dominion Dodgson is killed by a pack of Dilophosaurus after being cornered in the train tunnel. The lead dinosaur trafficker Delacourt also has his face ripped off by a juvenile Baryonyx.
- In Kick-Ass 2, the main villain has a shark tank as part of his personal supervillain lair. However, the shark does nothing but lie at the bottom of the pool, causing people to think it's dead... until he falls into it at the end of the climactic battle.
- The Big Bad of The Legend of Tarzan gets eaten by crocodiles.
- The Big Bad and his mooks in Love And Monsters are eaten by the very same Giant Enemy Crab they'd enslaved once Joel frees it.
- Men in Black:
- In the first film, spousal abuser Edgar is skinned and eaten by the Bug.
- Men in Black II: Serleena eats a mugger.
- This appears to be the case at the end, when Serleena is eaten by Jeff, only for her to kill him from inside and morph his body.
- In Pitch Black, mercenary Johns let a man die an agonizing death by stealing all the morphine for himself and was ready to murder Jack to distract the bioraptors. Riddick ultimately leaves him alone in the dark and Johns is killed and eaten by the monsters.
- Rampage (2018): Claire Wyden gets eaten by George after Kate smuggles the antidote that will cure George in her bag. A fitting fate for the woman who is responsible for George's rampage in the first place.
- Resident Evil Film Series:
- In Resident Evil (2002), the male security operative who released the T-virus inside the facility is killed and partially eaten by the Licker monster.
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse: The Big Bad of the film gets devoured alive by a bunch of zombies.
- Resident Evil: Afterlife: Bennet is eaten by Wesker.
- Resident Evil: Retribution: Alice feeds Bad!Rain to the zombies during the climax.
- Return of the Jedi. Boba Fett (who captured Han Solo in The Empire Strikes Back) is swallowed by the Sarlacc, where (according to Jabba the Hutt) he will find a new definition of pain and suffering as he's slowly digested over 1,000 years. But he's Boba Fett so he's too cool to die.
- In Romancing the Stone Zolo's hand is bitten off by a crocodile, and then he drops into a pit of them.
- Madam Yiu, the Dragon Lady villainess of Shanghai Grand who starves her pet boa into making it savage and releasing it to devour her captors, was killed when trying to feed Ding-Lik to the boa, when Ding-Lik shoves an exposed bulb down the boa's throat causing it to twitch violently, breaking free from the chains Yiu is using to control the animal. The boa then lunges at Madam Yiu, to her horror, before swallowing her face.
- Shark Attack
- Shark Attack: The bad guy ends up getting eaten alive by the same sharks that he had sicced on the town to drive down real estate prices.
- Shark Attack 3: Megalodon: The human villain leaves the passengers on a boat behind to die when the Megalodon shows up, but he crashes his jetski into the shark's open mouth.
- The villains of Shark Night feed people to sharks to make internet videos of them to make money, that and they're Ax-Crazy. So it's pretty karmic when one of the Co-Dragons falls into the Shark Pool he was attempting to lower the main character into, and later when the Big Bad himself gets eaten by a Great White.
- Spiders II: Breeding Ground: Dr. Grbac, the captain, and the rest of the crew who cooperated with Grbac's plans all end up eaten by the giant spiders he created.
- Tremors 5: Bloodlines: The villain is eaten alive by an African Graboid after he tried to capture one to sell it on the black market.
- You Only Live Twice: Hans, The Dragon to Big Bad Blofeld, is devoured after Bond knocks him into the piranha pool Blofeld keeps for disposing of traitors and failures.
- Meg 2: The Trench: Jess and Monte both turn out to be villains and both meet their respective demise in the jaws of a Meg. Jess betrayed her team and displayed no remorse over the ensuing deaths, and in a smug display of Tempting Fate, she declares the underwater rig chamber she's in to be completely Meg-Proof. One breaks through behind her and she is Swallowed Whole. Monte winds up punched into the mouth of the Meg by Jonas during their fight, and gets crunched up instead. It's hard to say who got it worse, but both deaths were very well-deserved.
Literature
- Short story "Thus I Refute Beelzy
". A mentally abusive father is eaten by the title character, his son's Not-So-Imaginary Friend.
- Famously done in the Silence Of The Lambs books. If they are a Bad, it is a good bet that Hannibal Lecter will eat them.
- Or, in Hannibal, he (in this case, Mason) gets eaten by the wild boars that he thought would eat Hannibal.
- In Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Mrs. Gorf is tricked into turning herself into an apple. Louis finds the apple and eats it.
- This happens to Mrs. Gorf again in a later book. She materializes in a plate of potato salad, and John and Joe quickly eat her before she can turn them into apples.
- Young Bond
- In the first novel, SilverFin, the Big Bad falls into the lake surrounding his Scottish castle and gets torn apart and devoured by the very eels that he had practiced his titular superserum on.
- In the fourth book, Hurricane Gold, The Dragon winds up getting paralyzed and eaten alive by a swarm of army ants while he can't do anything but watch.
- The old couple who killed cats for fun in H. P. Lovecraft's short story "The Cats of Ulthar" ends up, fittingly, eaten by all the town's cats.
- In Kitty and the Silver Bullet Carl, the abusive leader of the Denver werewolves, is torn apart by his own pack.
- Captain Hook's hand in Peter Pan had been lost in a duel with Pan and eaten by a giant crocodile which becomes his Animal Nemesis as a result. At the climax, the croc returns to finish the meal.
- James Bond novel Live and Let Die has the Big Bad get eaten by sharks and barracudas.
- In The Last Battle, Shift gets thrown in the stable of his Scam Religion by King Tiriam and gets eaten by Tash.
- Subverted — seeing as he survives — with Zorba the Hutt, Jabba's father, who appears in a few Star Wars Legends sources. In The Glove of Darth Vader, he seeks revenge on Han and Leia for his son's death, but his plan to deal Leia a Karmic Death by throwing her to the sarlacc ends with him humiliated, not only because he is thrown into it by Trioculus (a would-be successor to Palpatine with a weird crush on Leia — long story), but the beast vomits him out, clearly getting sick trying to eat him. (This is the first of many embarrassments for Zorba, who is clearly a sorry excuse for a Hutt.)
- Played straight with Feltipern Trevagg, who is introduced cheating a widow with children out of her home, and proceeds to seduce a space bimbo not realizing that among her people the bride traditionally eats the groom's insides on the wedding night.
- In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the Oompa-Loompas claim that this will be the gluttonous Augustus Gloop's fate, as the pipe he's stuck in leads to a room where fudge is prepared. In a subversion, he's rescued before that can happen... in most versions. It's strongly implied that he will become a tasty treat in the 2013 stage musical!
- Wilhelm Busch's picture story Max and Moritz ends with the titular bad boys getting ground up in a mill and eaten by geese.
- In Michael Crichton's sequel to Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Big Bad Lewis Dodgson gets devoured by a bunch of baby T. rexes after an adult drops him into the nest and breaks his leg so that he can't escape. It's especially karmic, since not only did he antagonize the group in this book, but he also helped cause the events of the first novel.
- In the Alex Rider book Crocodile Tears, The Dragon falls into, fittingly enough, a pit of crocodiles, which proceed to pull her apart in several different directions and eat her, leaving only a foot with a severed shoe.
- Malice X from Fat White Vampire Blues meets his end when he falls in bat-form into a pack of angry vampire wolf-dogs.
- InCryptid: Francesco Russo and his gang, the villains of the short story "Sweet Poison Wine", end up getting eaten by the river hags they tried to feed their enemies to, when Frances, Jonathan, and the gorgons leave them tied to chairs surrounded by raw liver, right next to the waterfront.
- Three Arthur Conan Doyle stories (The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, and The Brazilian Cat) involve an Inheritance Murder involving an Animal Assassin which ends up killing the would-be murderer instead.
- The Case of the Six Watsons by Robert Ryan. After the supposed death of Sherlock Holmes, a member of Moriarty's criminal organization tries to dispose of Dr. Watson as well, by locking him in a cage with a 'Brazilian cat' (presumably a black panther) that he's raised as a pet. Watson is able to survive—albeit at the cost of a nasty leg wound—by ducking into the panther's holding cage. The owner sees this and goes to open the cage. However the panther had never tasted human blood before until it injured Watson; having taken a liking to it, the panther goes straight for its owner instead.
Live-Action TV
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
- In the episode "The Pack", Xander and four gang members are taken over by a hyena spirit. As part of their rampage they kill and eat the school mascot pig, and then — when called into the principal's office for questioning — Principal Flutie. At the end of the episode, the zoo warden who caused the whole thing (he wanted the hyena spirit for himself) gets tossed into a hyena holding pit where he gets eaten.
- The episode "Go Fish" has the evil coach who was turning his team into Creature from the Black Lagoon-type monsters fall into a pit of them at the conclusion. "Those boys sure love their coach."
- "Graduation Day." Principal Snyder gets eaten by The Mayor, who has just transformed himself into a giant demon snake thingy.
- In V: The Final Battle, Daniel Bernstein is framed for the kidnapping of the Visitor Brian. Daniel is then captured, tortured, and taken away to be served to the aliens
- The tennis-playing giant alien blancmange in Monty Python's Flying Circus gets eaten by Mr. and Mrs. Brainsample. On the planet they're from, they're used to blancmanges being that size.
- Being a show about dinosaurs and other creatures that come through time portals, Primeval has this quite often. A prime example would be that of Season 2 Big Bad Oliver Leek, who gets ripped apart, shredded, and eaten by a bunch of Future Predators after Nick Cutter cuts the power to the devices he was using to control them.
- Walking with Dinosaurs:
- The Liopleurodon gets eaten by a group of Eustreptospondylus at the end of "Cruel Sea". It wasn't evil, just a predator, but it was nevertheless the episode's "villain".
- The Postosuchus is similarly eaten alive by a pack of Coelophysis at the end of "New Blood".
- Game of Thrones: In season 6 Ramsay Bolton is eaten alive by his own hounds after spending many seasons engaging in torture, warfare, and rape. This is especially karmic because he had trained his hounds to eat various people he hunted down or otherwise wanted to dispose of, and even more so due to him starving the hounds in preparation for eating Jon Snow and the others on the Stark side following the Battle of the Bastards, meaning that they're too hungry to recognize their master when Sansa Stark, his final victim, has him thrown into the kennels with them.
Myths & Religion
- Religious art of the Christian Middle Ages, especially in illustrations of the Last Judgement, often depicts the entrance to Hell as the open mouth of a large monster which swallows the damned. Pictures of Hell from the same era also frequently show the damned being swallowed, eaten or gnawed on by devils or demons◊.
- In Egyptian Mythology to enter the afterlife you had to be weighed against the Feather of Truth after denying you'd done a long list of sins (the "Negative Confession"). If you were lying and therefore committed too many of the sins, you would be fed to Ammut the Devourer, a hippo with a crocodile's head.
- Classical Myth: Inverted towards the end of the Trojan war- the priest Laocoon warned his fellow Trojans about bringing the Greek's wooden horse into the city. A bunch of snakes sprang out of the sea to devour him and his sons. He was right, of course, but because onlookers interpreted it as this trope, they hurried to bring the horse into the city.
- In the Book of Daniel from The Bible, after having to consign Daniel to a lion's den because of a law that some princes had tricked him into passing because they were jealous of him, King Darius, overjoyed that (as he himself had predicted) the Lord protected Daniel for the night by sending one of His angels to shut the lions' mouths so they could not hurt him, has Daniel taken out of the lions' den. The princes responsible for the law (and their families, in a bit of Disproportionate Retribution) are thrown in instead, where they promptly get eaten by the lions.
Theater
- The opera Hansel and Gretel (1893) adds a new element to the familiar tale by the Brothers Grimm: The witch owns a magical oven which bakes children into gingerbread. Of course, the witch ends up getting pushed into it, and not only does this restore all the gingerbread children to life, an impressive piece of witch-shaped gingerbread is brought out at the finale.
- The fate of Captain Hook in the original Peter Pan. Adaptations often spare him, though.
- Chiron and Demetrius get butchered and baked into a pie for raping and mutilating Lavinia in Titus Andronicus.
Video Games
- In Overlord II, the villain's dragon, Marius, is praising his boss after a One-Winged Angel turns him into an all-devouring Eldritch Abomination, his praise is interrupted by the devourer eating him.
- In Super Mario RPG, after the Bundt cake is beaten down to its last Raspberry layer, it gets swallowed by Booster in one mighty gulp, though it takes two flunkies just to lift it and throw it into his mouth. Of course, this cake was supposed to be just a dessert in the first place, but instead it came alive and started attacking.
- This happens a lot in both [PROTOTYPE] and [PROTOTYPE 2], most notably to Alex Mercer in the sequel. Suffice to say, in both games only six bad guys escaped this fate: Dr. McMullen by suicide, Supreme Hunter by decapitation, three scientists by helicopter crash and Col. Rooks by being more pragmatical than evil and thus surviving.
- In Drakensang 2: The River of Time, the corrupted commander Stitus Bloomfold (who often fed his prisoners to wild animals of sorts) tries to feed the party to his pet Newt Kraken, but when the monster is defeated and starts waving his tentacles in pain, he loses balance and fall in the kraken's open maws.
- In Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb, the Big Bad gets eaten by a dragon that was summoned from the underworld.
- Victor and Moritz in Crash Twinsanity manage to escape their Final Boss fight unscathed and attempt to hide away in a hut. They quickly discover that it's Evil Crash's hut and the monstrous bandicoot's hungry.
- A possible way to kill targets in a few levels of Hitman.
- Blood Money has two. The "Till Death Do Us Part" level allows any bodies (alive or dead) that are pushed into the swamp to be eaten by alligators. One of the targets in that level is even a Fat Bastard who likes to feed chum to the reptiles... The other level is "A Dance With the Devil", set in a Las Vegas nightclub with a massive shark tank in the Hell-themed basement area. People can be pushed in to the water from the feeding area, but rigging the pyrotechnics show will fry one of your targets and cause her to jump into the water, where the sharks eat her.
- In Absolution, this can be done in the "Death Factory" level where a pig-hating scientist can be dropped into a pit full of them. However, unlike Blood Money, where the bodies are actually eaten (and can make the sharks quite fat), looking down into said pit will reveal the body lying above where the pigs are milling about as crunching and eating noises are heard, so its best to just listen and leave it to your imagination.
- In Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse, Big Bad Betram gets swallowed by his own Tyrannosaurus rex.
- In Jurassic Park: The Game, Dr. Sorkin gets eaten by the Mosasaurus she freed after turning on the group and becoming essentially an eco-terrorist. Later, Yoder does a Face–Heel Turn and ascends to Big Bad status by betraying the group and leaving them to die. When they later catch up to him and fight him, the Tyrannosaurus rex appears and he gets devoured by it while trying to get the Barbasol container back. If Nima chooses to get the canister back instead of helping Jess, she too will take a trip to the T. rex's stomach.
- Many villains in World of Warcraft:
- One Alliance quest you can take involves using a disguise to infiltrate the Blacktooth Hovel and, among other things, eliminate three of their leaders. One of them is Worgmistress Othana, a cruel woman who beats and tortures the worgs she is in charge of. After you strike her with the weapon provided by the quest giver, she's paralyzed, and the abused worgs waste no time closing in to finish her off. (It's rather enjoyable to watch.)
- In Isle of the Giants, Dohaman the Beast Lord is a troll "dinomancer" who has altered a giant devilsaur named Oondasta into a gigantic living siege engine. Before the Raid actually starts, he orders Oondasta to crush the Raid members, but Oondasta decides to devour him before doing so.
- In the Suramar storyline, one quest requires you to free menagerie animals held with Slave Collars, including another devilsaur named Su'esh. Again, her trainer orders her to attack you, but she does not, and devours him. But that's only the start. You then have to ride Su'esh and go all kaiju on Suramar, crushing and devouring the Legion soldiers.
- In the Highmountain instance, a Shaman tries to summon Naraxas, a giant worm-like abomination, to sic on your party. It complies, but eats him first.
- Muramasa: The Demon Blade: In "Genroku Legends: The Fishy Tales of the Nekomata", the first DLC for Muramasa Rebirth, Netsuzo Wakamiya — an ambitious and unscrupulous nobleman — arranges the downfall of the Inukai clan, who he is the chamberlain of. When the family's only daughter, Okoi, shows up seeking advice and shelter, Wakamiya decides to make her his concubine. Unfortunately for him, "Okoi" is actually Miike, the now-deceased real Okoi's pet cat who became a nekomata to avenge her, and just as Wakamiya is undressing her, "Okoi" transforms into a monstrous two-tailed cat monster and eats him.
- A commercial in StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty shows that terrans turn some zerg (specifically Mutalisks but there may be others), into truckstop food.
- At the end of Delphi's campaign in the single-player mode of Giants: Citizen Kabuto, the evil witch-queen of the Sea Reapers, Sappho, is eaten by the kaiju Kabuto after Delphi destroys the magical Kabuto Stone that Delphi was using to control Kabuto.
Web Comics
- Girl Genius: One of the Knights of Jove members who is hunting down Agatha and Violetta in the Refuge of Storms ends up eaten by a giant monster after yelling indignantly at it when it interrupts his chase.
- In The Order of the Stick, this is the ultimate fate of Tsukiko. By her own wights, no less.
- In The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, the Lumberjack's companion is defeated, only to be turned into Blue Steaks.
- In User Friendly, the Crud Puppy gets knocked into the coffee grinder, and is drunk by Pitr. Unfortunately, its hands survive inside his chest, and the surgeons who operate on him aren't too careful.
Web Original
- Alexia's final fate in The Return, devoured by Darkstar.
- Roman Torchwick from RWBY meets his end at the jaws of a griffon.
Western Animation
- Animaniacs: In Moby or Not Moby Captain Ahab spends the episode being a jerkass and sadistically trying to kill Moby-Dick. When his attempts to harpoon Moby fail, the enraged whale chases after Ahab and swallows him whole.
- Dr. Ashida in Jonny Quest is eaten by his own Ashida dragons.
- In "Treasure of the Temple" the archeological thief Perkins and his men are eaten by crocodiles.
- Happens to Big Bad Phobos near the end of season 2 of W.I.T.C.H. when he's betrayed by Cedric. However after Cedric's defeat we see that he did manage to survive.
- In the Teen Titans (2003) episode "Transformation", an alien predator called a Cironeilian Chrysalis Eater lures Starfire to a secluded grove so it can devour her once her cocoon (part of the Transformation process she is undergoing) is complete, cruelly mocking her as it happens. When the other Titans intervene, Starfire completes the process and emerges, then blasts the creature outside the grove, where it becomes prey to a Man-Eating Plant she encountered earlier.
- At the end of Wallace & Gromit's A Matter of Loaf and Death, Serial Killer Piella Bakewell tries to escape in a hot air balloon. However, since she's a Fat Bitch, her weight causes her to descend into the local zoo...and straight down into the crocodile exhibit. You can guess what happens next.
- Danger Mouse: At the end of "Statues," Baron Greenback comes to what sounds like his demise as the statue of chef Monsieur Smaquing Lipps has designs on making frog's legs out of him (The Baron would obviously return in ensuing episodes thanks to Joker Immunity.)
- In the second season of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, two trophy hunters posing as Eco-tourists named Mitch and Tiffany end up meeting their ends at the jaws of dinosaurs. Mitch gets caught in one of his own traps and is eaten by the T. Rex (who he electrocuted with a cattle prod) and Tiffany gets eaten by a pair of Baryonyx (whose sibling she shot).
- In the Looney Tunes short "A Day at the Zoo", a lion exhibit is repeatedly shown where we see Egghead poking the lion with a stick between the bars of it's cage and The Narrator keeps shooing him away while warning him against it. At the very end of the cartoon, we see the lion alone with a content look; just as The Narrator thinks Egghead finally learned his lesson and went home, the lion shakes it's head, opens it's mouth and we see a pair of eyes in the darkness of down it's throat.
Egghead: I'm a bad boy.
Real Life
- In 2020, a group of poachers broke into a game reserve in South Africa to hunt some endangered rhinos and were eaten by lions.
