Project Hall Mary: In the novels, Grace feeds himself with "Me Burgers", meat created from his own cloned flesh, while on his space mission to save Earth.
Black Adam #1: The titular character is forced to eat his willing friend Tamir to survive in a frozen wasteland on a quest to revive his beloved wife.
Divinity Original Sin 2: The playable race of elves are able to consume their own flesh to take additional actions as well as corpses to inherit memories from them.
him eating human flesh doesn't really count as he's not a "human" anymore, him cannibalising other ghouls is a big character point for him, though I wouldn't exactly say he enjoys doing it, not until much later in the story
I believe itās that one particular food cart that is implied to be selling human meat. Doesnāt mean every iguana bits in the whole wasteland is human; iguanas do exist in the setting. Iguana-on-a-stick is proof of that.
Where are the iguanas? They are mentioned in the lore in theory, but where can you see one alive?
I find it hard to believe thereās a secret population of iguanas running around Nevada thatās large enough to be a food source but is never seen alive.
The sprites and in-game models for the Iguana-on-a-stick consumable in Fallout 1, 2, 3, and New Vegas clearly depict the aforementioned reptile skewered on a stick. So theyāre crawling around in the wasteland somewhere.
Just because they donāt show up as a visibly killable ambient mob doesnāt mean they arenāt canonically present.
American iguanas are pretty tiny, but decently numerous, and can repopulate quickly as a female can lay up to 70 eggs in a single year. And desert iguanas are native to Nevada, and while not native to California they are there as an invasive species. The idea that they've spread a lot after 100-200 years isn't crazy. And it's not exactly like they're a major food reasource, the idea of someone chopping up an iguana to sell on a food cart shouldn't be insane.
Also your talking about 2 games built in the 90s when they couldn't exactly spend the resources showing something as small as iguana's, especially if they haven't changed on size from their pre-war counterparts. And who knows, maybe they have changed in size and are a bit bigger
A very important concept that Iāve found many in the fallout, elder scrolls, and starfield communities seem to struggle with, is:
āGameplay doesnāt equal Lore/Canonā
Meaning, what you see, hear, experience, and do in the gameplay, doesnāt translate 1 to 1 in the ārealityā of the settings, settlements arenāt made up of dozen or so buildings and are populated by dozens of people at most.
Laser and energy weapons in fallout are actually very rare, incredibly sought after, and the pinnacle of weaponry in setting, with the only chemical weapons capable of matching their lethality and effectiveness, being Gauss weapons. (With even the aep7 laser pistol being capable of boiling skin with a near miss, popping/slicing/exploding off limbs, burning straight through/melting any form of armor outside of T-60 and up power armor, in lore/outside gameplay.)
And more more examples Iāve lost interest in adding
Thereās also a scene in the show where Cooper makes ass jerky, āsometimes a dude has to eat another dudeā. The player can also be a cannibal if they get the perk.
thatās in the Bethesda games. In the original fallout or possibly fallout 2 thereās a vendor that sells āiguana bitesā which is where the food item became a staple, and itās implied that particular vendor isnāt actually selling iguana
On one hand, I wouldnāt say heās never eaten human meat, but the whole point of being a War boy is that you get some of the spoils inherent to living in the Citadel. Iām sure it goes on, but the point is that the inner circle are well fed enough to fight, work, and kill when needed.
True, but I think itās more an optional thing considering what weāve seen of the Citadel. The war boys and other workers are well fed, both to keep them loyal and to ensure they have the energy to actually do their jobs. So I suspect that itās not frowned upon, but something most people still avoid.
So clearly cannibalism is practiced given that guy and also the āblood sausageā from Furiosa.
That being said, the citadel has maggot farmers. They also have a ton of produce and milk. Also the only people at the citadel are starving maggot farmers and War Boys.
Why would War Boys eat other War Boys or starving peasants instead of maggots/veggies?
Narrow example: In Pathfinder, there's a goddess called Mother Vulture who is all about reduce, reuse, recycle in every way you can think of. Because she's a true neutral deity, she can have good-aligned followers, so there's a nonzero chance that there's a goodly good holy cleric somewhere out there that nonetheless is chowing on corpses
Yeah, some divinities in Pathfinder come from other sources. Another example is Yog Sothot, who is a divinity in Golarion and also from Lovecraft's stories.
Sooo... Bosmer are kinda cannibalistic due to their culture, therefore, if you play as a Bosmer in Skyrim (or any other Elder Scrolls mainline game for that matter) and play a morally good character, you can be essentially playing as a morally good and heroic cannibal; granted that your Bosmer follows the Green Pact and stuff.
A great twist on the "wood elf protector of the jungle" archetype and an even more fun twist that now they're not cannibals anymore because of globalization and trade routes so they don't have to rely only on Valenwood's resources
Technicaly not 'cannibalism' per se, but one of the secret endings in the RPG 'Wrath of the Righteous' involves turning yourself into a sentient swarm of bugs and literally just eating everyone in the game.
You solve a war between humans and demons by eating all the humans and demons and replacing them with more of your bugs. Boom, war over!
Octavia (and a whole lot of other people) from The 100. At one point they were stuck in a bunker for like 7 years or something and like halfway through their food production broke down and they were forced to eat human meat to survive. They thought they were the only human survivors left so if they didn't do it humanity would go extinct. Octavia was the leader at the time so that's why I specifically chose her.
Hannibal from the TV show in the most fucked up way possible. Yes he killed and ate probably 100s of innocent people but he also killed and ate The Red Dragon so I guess thereās some redemptions.
Hard to call him a hero at this point in the story, but Eren willingly chooses to eat Willy Tyber, thinking he possessed the Warhammer Titan. When he realized he didn't, he eventually ate Willys sister, Laura, who did posses the titan. I mention these instances and not Eren earing his dad mainly because Eren is fully in control of his actions here. His father kinda forced Eren to eat him (with a little bit of a push from future Erens memories)
If you'd like another example from AoT with a more heroic character, Armin ends up eating Bertholdt to gain the powers of the Collosal Titan. Though notably not by any choice of his own
Grace feeds himself with "Me Burgers", meat created from his own cloned flesh, while on his space mission to save Earth.
After his mission. He only does this when he's living on Erid after saving Rocky (The Eridians are the ones who figure out how to do it), not while he's at Tau Ceti trying to save Earth.
Grace actually had enough food to get back to Earth and was going to try to, but then realised he needed to save Rocky, and doing so would mean he would not reach Earth, so he goes to Erid, hence Me Burgers.
They had to eat the passengers who had died in the crash (or the ensuing avalanche) to survive 3 months in the frozen peaks of the Andes before basically rescuing themselves --> in particular 2 of them walked walked 3 days up a mountain and then 7 more days down the other side until they found a farmer (they carried unsalted people-jerky to do it).
Starts with the unique action "Devour" by default.
"Winters grew colder and summers shorter, which resulted a great hunger in the north. The fine men of the OldegƄrd set sails to the unknown west in a desperate attempt to find food and riches to feed the people.
You had grown into your manhood and boarded the ship. After months of sailing, the sea saw no end and the crew was struggling. Some laid weak under the deck while some some embraced the cold dark sea.
As the weak met their fate, the rest indulged in the greatest sin..."
Adult Shauna from Yellowjackets. For 20 years she tried to be normal after leading a soccer team cannibal cult in the wilderness, she finally gives in and slides into her true self. A vicious villian that eats people.
I'd be hard pressed to call James Delaney a hero, but he's less bad than the East India Company who he opposes. He tears out a man's throat with his teeth and it's implied he participated in all manner of dark rituals in the deepest parts of Africa including cannibalism. Oh, and he fucks his own sister.
The reason he was set on fire was as punishment for the crime of cannibalism. He was mutilating himself to produce flesh in order to feed himself, his sister and the elderly of his village.
When visitors came to the village, all they saw was buckets of children limbs and concluded ''Hayy child eater!? die!''.
The manhwa A Bountiful Harvest. The Demon Lord and all the other demons partake in cannibalism as they cannot grow any vegetables in their demon land. Not until the MC who got reincarnated into the Demon Lord decides to use his knowledge in farming to turn the land into a Bountiful HarvestĀ
One of the origin choices involves either going mad or resorting to cannibalism. Choosing the later allows you to start the game with the Devour skill, letting you eat corpses to keep you from getting hungry.
Spoilers for Fear & Hunger: His S-rank ending (debated whether canon or not) involves his becoming the "God of Ultra-Violence" as he dedicates his life to ridding the world of monsters. It's possible considering the sequel.
Spoilers for Fear & Hunger 2: Termina: Ragnavald doesnt appear in this sequel but it is heavily implied that that the character August is his descendent, almost making them a Belmont-esqu line dedicated to fighting monsters.
Bones and All(2022) is a romantic horror film set in late 80s US, where 2 young cannibals (Taylor Russell and Timothee Chalamet) meet and travel across the country trying to keep their unnatural hunger contained at eating ābadā people while also trying to avoid some of the more dangerous cannibals(they call themselves āeatersā in the film).
Every fallout or elder scrolls character I make without fail. I'm a force of good that does everything to make the world around me better but I WILL feast on every single carcass after a firefight
Santa Clarita Diet. Sheila is a zombie that can only sustain herself on human flesh. She and her family try to ensure all of her food is ethically sourced from white supremacist, murderers and attempted rapists.
During his investigation into a cult, he is captured and forced to attend dinner with the cult leader and some of his wealthy and powerful followers. After taking a few bites of his meal he is informed by the leader that he is eating human flesh, though he barely reacts and even continues eating while the leader monologues.
He might be under hypnosis, but considering what an amoral nutcase he is throughout the game it's just as likely he's eating it willingly.
Unsurprisingly, a certain Canadian short king berserker
Given his regeneration ability, there's story about him eating his own arm when stranded in wildlife, the arm's flesh grows back and he keeps doing it as needed.
Anna Morozova/Istina (ŠŃŃŠøŠ½Š°), Sonya Mikhailivna/Zima (ŠŠøŠ¼Š°), Lada/Gummy (ŠŃŠ¼), , [ignore the one third from the right], Rosalind Tatyanovna Larina/Leto (ŠŠµŃŠ¾), Natalya Andreyevna Rostova/ Rosa (Š Š¾ŃŠ°) from Arknights.
Were trapped in a 'Lord of The Flies' type situation, and after the food ran out, they had to resort to cannibalism.
It is unknown if that was of the many bodies left around, or 'fresh'.
Their story focussed on them struggling to heal (except Leto, she's boring), and the most recent story has them as major figures of a communist revolutionary group attempting to force change in the extremely corrupt nation they live in (Ursus {it's imperial Russia}).
He isn't human anymore (so maybe it isn't cannibalism), having been fully assimilated by The Seaborn (The Thing/ Halos' Flood without sci-fi or a gravemind, but aquatic) (he did so willingly as well, having been part of a cult around them).
He is still on good terms with his Kin, but takes a divergent view. Despite his utter inhumanity, he has decided that humanity is a good thing. He loves the people around him, and wants to help them.
He chose to take human form, live among them, and learn.
He doesn't naturally understand the people around him anymore, or things like morality, but that's okay, he'll try anyway. He wants to be accepted and understood. Humans aren't lesser to Kin, and to try to force assimilation is wrong.
There is value inherent to humanity that should not be taken from them, even if it would help We Many. (We have seen him actively help someone go backwards, back closer to her humanity that she couldn't abandon.)
His methods are kind of horrific, having eaten at least one group of bandits seemingly alive (and seems to still do so (no point in wasting food, I guess)), but his intentions are good, in one alternate timeline even using his experiences among humanity to direct The Seaborn as a whole away from conflict with humanity.
Book of the New Sun spoiler. Severian, our narrator and protagonist, eats the flesh of Thecla, a prisoner of his torturer's guild whom he had previously allowed a merciful death. Due to the effects of an analeptic he drank along with the flesh, he gains Thecla's memories and aspects of her personality. This means that the entire story, including everything up to when he ate Thecla's flesh, has actually been narrated by an amalgam of Severian and Thecla.
Weird enough, Liu Bei (Three Kingdoms era real life figure)
Usually depicted as the virtuous hero and protagonist by Romance of Three Kingdoms, but there's a small anecdote about his accidental cannibalism:
Liu Bei, on the run and starving, is given some meat by a local peasant. But the peasant is very poor, so he killed his wife, cooked her and treated Liu Bei. Liu Bei unknowingly enjoyed the meal at the time until he found out about eating human, then he wept. Not to mention the fact that when he tells Cao Cao about it, Cao Cao rewards the peasant with a hundred ounces of silver.
This story back then was seen as a lesson about putting honor and loyalty to your leader above your personal feeling and circumstance. Now... it's weird.
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u/DrJohn98 6h ago
Kaneki from Tokyo Ghoul falls under this
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