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It'll be one pistol as before and you can be the gentleman and shoot the lady and starve to death yourself.
~ Hector Barbossa marooning Jack Sparrow on a distant island for the second time, this time, with Elizabeth Swann with him.
I'm warning you now, boy. Any funny business, any at all, and you won't have any meals for a week.
~ Vernon Dursley threatening Harry Potter.
On a tiny star somewhere far, far away from earth, there is a very special place known as Dream Land. The Dream Landers are very happy people who use their magical Sparkling Stars to play and work among the heavens. That is until one dark night when the gluttonous King Dedede and his rotten band of thieves swooped down from neighboring Mt. Dedede for a midnight snack in Dream Land. Not only did they steal all their food, but they stole the Dream Landers' treasured Sparkling Stars as well. Because the Dream Landers didn't have the Sparkling Stars to gather food anymore, they began to get very hungry.
~ Description of the plot of the original Kirby's Dream Land, which was about King Dedede stealing all of the food in Dream Land.

Starvers are villains who commit evil by causing starvation. Tyrants often willfully withhold food as punishment (as with President Snow in The Hunger Games and Maestro from Marvel) or manage their nation so poorly that none is available (as with Scar in The Lion King). Kidnappers will also do this to their victims (such as Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs), usually for their very twisted but personal pleasure.

While there are very few gods who specifically rule over starvation, Famine, one of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse in Biblical lore seems to represent this concept. Other gods will be seen causing starvation, sometimes out of rage (such as God in Maltheism punishing humans for improper conduct) or simply apathy towards human life (such as Hades causing winter by kidnapping Persephone).

Starvers can also be the types of thieves who are known to make off with their victims’ food supply; the Black Mouth is an example of this kind of starver.

Starvation is often considered to be one of the cruelest forms of death and torture, thus characters who deliberately starve others are generally hated and disliked, even among villains - in many settings starving people willingly invokes the "Even Evil Has Standards" trope, due to its cruel nature.

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