This gives the trope the impact of some other cultures' urging the victorious to eat their vanquished enemies' heart, or of the torture of Prometheus by Zeus' eagle's daily meal being the Titan's liver, which regrew each day for torment's sake. note A notable exceptionīeing Stephen Colbert, who prefers the many neurons found in the gut. The trope may be of particular saliency now because we no longer tend to believe that the essence of one's individual humanity, call it a 'soul', resides in (say) one's heart or (as the ancient Greeks supposedly thought) the liver most of us would tend to place any such thing in the brain. If this is a comedy, there will nearly always be one person 'immune' to the problem, due to not having any brains to begin with. If there is a brain eater on the scene, expect to see a scooped out head at some point, if for no other reasons that it looks really terrifying. Sometimes there is a reason for this lust for pink matter: the monster thinks it will get the powers/ knowledge/memories of the unfortunate brain owner - and depending on the monster, that may even be true.
For whatever reason, an amazingly large number of monsters enjoy eating human brains.
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