![]() Sometimes if you are eaten, you don't have to worry about being digested, because Getting Eaten Is Harmless. When done pragmatically, you have Eating the Enemy. Compare and contrast Stewed Alive, which is usually Played for Laughs and involves Black Comedy Cannibalism. Super-Trope of Devoured by the Horde, where a character is eaten alive by multiple parties. This is one of the more gruesome ways of pulling a Disney Death if someone sees an animal with some clothing in its mouth (especially clothing stained with blood), he isn't likely to wonder about the lack of a body. See also Fed to the Beast, where someone is deliberately consigned to this awful fate, and Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth, for when the eater changes its mind. Sometimes the victim is Swallowed Whole, but other times, they are savagely ripped apart piece by piece (this is especially common if one is overtaken by multiple creatures out to eat you). It's probably the most common fear we have as kids. This isn't quite the threat it used to be for those of us who live in parts of the world where humans have made most dangerous land animals extinct or endangered (those in the sea, not so much), but stories of monsters of all kinds ( dragons, aliens, demons, zombies, etc.) remind us that we can become prey again very easily. ![]() ![]() Probably one of our oldest Primal Fears, and quite universal, given that we have long shared this planet with some rather nasty predators.
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