History Main / ExtremeOmnigoat

* In the kids' song "My Highland Goat", the eponymous goat eats six red shirts off a washing line.

** Goats eat roses-a plant that evolved thorns specifically to avoid being eaten by anything too big to fit between them. To try and stop them, somebody bred roses that supposedly tasted so horrible the goats wouldn't eat them. [[FridgeLogic The goats ate them anyway]].

* In ‘’ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark’’, Lord Julius once had a goat as a candidate for Prime Minister of Iest. At one point the goat was chewing at an abbess’ burlap gown.

* ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep'' has one. Mmmh, old car tyres!

* There's a children's book called ''Gregory, the Terrible Eater'', written by Mitchell Sharmat and illustrated by Jose Aruego and Ariane Dewey. It's about a goat whose parents are very concerned--he doesn't want to eat normal things like cans and boxes, he wants these bizarre concoctions, like scrambled eggs, tacos, and peanut butter sandwiches. They eventually start him on a regimen that centers around compromise--they'll let him eat what he wants (e.g., some peas) if he also eats what they think he should (e.g., the can); they realize it's worked too well when he starts noshing on Dad's ties and Mom's sewing kit, and have to tell him to scale it back a bit.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' (the Disney version), Djali the goat eats Quasimodo's figures, which are made out of wood.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E19PuttingYourHoofDown Putting Your Hoof Down]]", the goats accompanying Iron Will are shown munching on Pinkie's tail and each others' ties while Iron Will is trying to collect payment from Fluttershy. In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E21OnceUponAZeppelin Once Upon a Zeppelin]]", when Iron Will and a goat are relaxing with drinks held in hollowed-out pineapples, the goat takes a large bite from the fruit rind once it's finished the drink.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E19PuttingYourHoofDown Putting Your Hoof Down]]", the goats accompanying [[ALoadOfBull Iron Will]] are shown munching on Pinkie's tail and each others' ties while Iron Will is trying to collect payment from Fluttershy. In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E21OnceUponAZeppelin Once Upon a Zeppelin]]", when Iron Will and a goat are relaxing with drinks held in hollowed-out pineapples, the goat takes a large bite from the fruit rind once it's finished the drink.

* Goats aren't the only cloven-hoofed animals that fulfill the BigEater type. The capital city of Nara prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan have tame deer who live to eat and are not fussy about anything. Anything offered (and not offered) by tourists they eagerly gulp down, including deer biscuits, clothes, and map directions. [[http://www.houseofjapan.com/local/chain-eating-deer-at-nara One unusual case]] involved a deer gnawing on the iron chains separating the lawns and temple's approach, which it then taught to the other deer. The people weren't too mad, though; the deer just needed more iron in their diet.

* ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'': [[RobotBuddy Probe]] purchases the "Lawnmower S8000" for his boss Adu Du, but the lawnmower turned out to be a goat. Since their base doesn't even have grass, the goat is only good at eating wires around the base instead. In the goat's defense, it prefers the content of iron in them.

* In addition to the adaptation of "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS1E4EdwardGordonAndHenry Edward, Gordon and Henry]]" (see the Literature section), ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' also gives us the episode, "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS5E8Baa Baa!]]", where Percy encounters a mischievous and constantly hungry ram. When Percy and his crew first found Maithwaite station to be a mess, Percy's driver and the passengers immediately assume that the ram had come to make a meal of the station. While the ram was there, however, [[NotHisSled he was not the one responsible]]. It was some mischievous boys, whom the ram had taken hostage in the station's waiting room. Thus, Maithwaite Station wins the Best Dressed Station competition, and Sir Topham Hatt presents a pumpkin to a farmer for the noble ram, and says, "And I'll eat my hat if you don't like it." When Harold lands, the wind from his propellers blows Sir Topham Hatt's hat off his head, right in the ram's reach, where the ram promptly eats it.

* An early ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'' story, "Edward, Gordon, and Henry" features The Fat Controller leaning out of a window, causing his hat to blow off his head, where a goat eats it for tea. This was also adapted into [[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS1E4EdwardGordonAndHenry an episode]] of the AnimatedAdaptation, ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine''.

* In addition to the adaptation of "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS1E4EdwardGordonAndHenry Edward, Gordon and Henry]]" (see the Literature section), ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' also gives us the episode, "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS5E8Baa Baa!]]", where Percy encounters a mischievous and constantly hungry ram. When Percy and his crew first found Maithwaite station to be a mess, Percy's driver and the passengers immediately assume that the ram had come to make a meal of the station. While the ram was there, however, [[NotHisSled he was not the one responsible]]. It was some mischievous boys, whom the ram had taken hostage in the station's waiting room. Thus, Maithwaite Station wins the Best Dressed Station competition, and Sir Topham Hatt presents a pumpkin to a farmer for the noble ram, and says, "And I'll eat my hat if you don't like it." When Harold lands, the wind from his propellers blows Sir Topham Hatt's hat off his head, right in the ram's reach, where the ram promptly eats it.

* An early ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'' story, "Edward, Gordon, and Henry" features The Fat Controller leaning out of a window, causing his hat to blow off his head, where a goat eats it for tea. This was also adapted into [[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS1E4EdwardGordonAndHenry an episode]] of the AnimatedAdaptation, ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine''.

* In addition to the adaptation of "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS1E4EdwardGordonAndHenry Edward, Gordon and Henry]]" (see the Literature section), ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' also gives us the episode, "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS5E8Baa Baa!]]", where Percy encounters a mischievous and constantly hungry ram. When Percy and his crew first found Maithwaite station to be a mess, Percy's driver and the passengers immediately assume that the ram had come to make a meal of the station. While the ram was there, however, [[NotHisSled he was not the one responsible]]. It was some mischievous boys, whom the ram had taken hostage in the station's waiting room. Thus, Maithwaite Station wins the Best Dressed Station competition, and Sir Topham Hatt presents a pumpkin to a farmer for the noble ram, and says, "And I'll eat my hat if you don't like it." When Harold lands, the wind from his propellers blows Sir Topham Hatt's hat off his head, right in the ram's reach, where the ram promptly eats it.

* As usual, Creator/TexAvery takes this trope and goes to town with it in the MGM cartoon "Billy Boy", about a goat that literally eats a farmer out of house and home. [[spoiler:The cartoon ends with Billy being flown to the moon...which he then eats]].

** In the Hanna-Barbera short "Getting Popeye's Goat", the Navy goat that Popeye takes into Olive's house eats such things as Olive's cosmetics and a functioning radio.

* The wartime ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIlLEcjxv7w Scrap Happy]] [[WesternAnimation/ScrapHappyDaffy Daffy]]" had old-school Daffy trying to build up a scrap heap for the war effort and matching wits with a Nazi goat who tried to eat it all.

* Gompers in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' has chewed on Mabel's sweater, Stan's fez, license plates, and other random things. [[spoiler:In "Weirdmageddon Part 1", as a giant, he even chomps on a ''prison wall'']]!

* The wartime ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIlLEcjxv7w "Scrap Happy Daffy"]] had old-school Daffy trying to build up a scrap heap for the war effort and matching wits with a Nazi goat who tried to eat it all.

** Unfortunately, this tendency to eat any available vegetation also makes them a fairly invasive species themselves. They were particularly bad on a few of the Galapagos Islands, where they consumed a lot of the plants and out-competed the native giant tortoises. Despite being one of the earliest domesticated animals, they routinely turn feral when left to their own devices.

In general, their [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Trademark Favorite "Food"]] is generally accepted to be tin cans, or at least [[MetalMuncher anything made out of metal]]. This is a commonly believed myth in real life, coming from the fact that real-life goats will ''chew'' on tin cans in order to eat the paper and glue from the labels.

* TruthInTelevision, within limits.

** Another song had farm animals continuously coming and eating the singer's food, ending on a goat who ate the only things left: a pair of sneakers and the bowl they were sitting in. Following complaints by the Dairy Goats Association of America, later showings were followed by a sketch of a goat Muppet emphatically saying how she would ''not'' eat sneakers, but only healthy food that would help produce good milk -- though a second goat had no such compunctions, since she wasn't a dairy goat.

* ''Franchise/ArchieComics'' has several examples:

Depending on the situation and the level of comic exaggeration, such a goat may go from simply being willing to eat technically edible things most people or animals would never begin to find palatable to being able to consume literally anything put in front of it, chowing down on steel girders and cinderblocks as if they were hay. An Extreme Omni-Goat is usually also able to consume preposterous volumes of food, often eating hundreds or thousands of times its own weight in produce, wood and/or industrial materials without any visible discomfort or losing any of its appetite.