- "You will, therefore, be taken to the Dune Sea and cast into the Pit of Carkoon, the nesting place of the all powerful Sarlacc. In its belly you will find a new definition of pain and suffering as you are slowly digested over a…thousand years."
- ―C-3PO
Eaten alive is a process by which an aggressive organism, usually an animal, but sometimes a plant, consumes another organism while it is still alive. Clearly it takes some measure of intestinal fortitude to accomplish such a feat, as well as a rather apathetic regard for other living creatures or people. Naturally, being eaten alive almost always results in the death of the one being eaten, but some lucky few have managed to escape from the slavering jaws of their hungry predators and lived to tell the tale.
A classic film example of people being eaten alive is the 1958 b-movie The Blob. In the film, a gelatinous space spore terrorizes the suburban community of Anytown, Pennsylvania, consuming numerous victims that get pulled into it's mass and liquified.
Mako from Savage Dragon #262 does not have a discerning appetite.
Examples of being eaten alive can be found in the 1983 science fiction/fantasy film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Several characters throughout the film are eaten alive beginning with hapless Twi'lek slave dancer, Oola, who is fed to a carnivorous monster known as the Rancor in the dungeons of Jabba the Hutt's desert palace. Her death takes place off-camera, but the Rancor has an on-screen appetizer when he chomps down on a squealing Gamorrean guard only a few minutes later. Later in the movie, the heroes and their underworld adversaries battle one another over a sand depression called the Pit of Carkoon. The pit is the nesting place of am omnivorous creature known as a Sarlacc. During the battle, several individuals lose their footing and go tumbling down the slope into the Sarlacc's maw. Notable Sarlacc victims at this time include Barada, Kithaba, Queequeg, Velken Tezeri, Vedain and notorious bounty hunter Boba Fett.
Any film with predatory animals will invariably show some slow-moving shmuck getting gobbled up by some critter or another. A favorite crowd pleaser is in the 1993 dinosaur movie Jurassic Park when scumbag lawyer Donald Gennaro gets bitten in half by a T-Rex. Other walking Happy Meals seen in the film include Robert Muldoon and Ray Arnold, who are both eaten by velociraptors as well as scheming turncoat Dennis Nedry, who is killed by a Dilophosaurus.
In the 2002 "creature feature" Eight Legged Freaks, a horde of giant mutant spiders raid the town of Prosperity, Arizona, consuming many townspeople as well as a cat, a dog, a parrot and several ostriches.
Characters who are eaten alive[]
| Name | Source |
|---|---|
| McKeltch | Invaders from Mars (1986) |
| Stanley Dover I | DC Universe |
Appearances[]
Films[]
- Castle Freak
- Creature from the Haunted Sea - Bug-eyed sea monsters eats a Cuban.
- Cujo - Cujo eats Joe Camber, Gary Pervier & George Bannerman.
- Invaders from Mars (1986) - A Martian Drone eats Mrs. McKeltch in 3 gulps.
Comics[]
- Klyde & Meriem 1 - Big dinosaurs eat little dinosaurs.
- Walking Dead 163 - Paula is eaten alive by roamers.
- Zombie Tramp Vol 3 3 - Zombie Tramp creates zombies that eat The King.
Novels[]
- Cujo - Cujo eats Joe Camber, Gary Pervier & George Bannerman.