History Main / ExtremeOmnigoat

** 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. [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth The goats ate them anyway]].

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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': If he wants to, the God of Darkness is capable of consuming everything to destroy it, and is shown doing so in the form of a goat that eats everything it comes across, no matter what it is. [[spoiler:He was originally created to destroy everything that needed to be removed so that the Ever After could be made habitable. His original form was that of a goat, and his method of destroying what needed to be removed was to eat it.]]

* In ''Adventurers' Consumer Guide'' trying to go north at the start of the game produces this message:

* In ''Webcomic/DocRat'', [[http://www.docrat.com.au/default.asp?thisItem=766 the goat tells her kid not to eat tin cans, and the kid grumbles because comic ones do eat them.]]

* ''Film/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': As with the book, Grover the [[FaunsAndSatyrs satyr]] is shown to eat non-conventional things a few times. In ''Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief'', for example, he casually chews apart an aluminum soda can in one scene and a hotel's remote control in another.

* ''Film/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': In ''Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief'', Grover the [[FaunsAndSatyrs satyr]] casually chews apart an aluminum soda can in one scene.

* There's a children's book called ''Literature/GregoryTheTerribleEater'', 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.
* ''Literature/HankTheCowdog'': The story ''The Case of the Dancing Cowboy'' (which was originally serialized in newspapers and later released via audio, but not in a printed form) has Drover mentioning how he once knew a goat who "ate tin cans and ketchup bottles''. (And rose bushes.) Hank doesn't believe a word of it.

* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': Grover is actually a satyr, but half-goat surely counts, and he certainly eats everything from tin cans to enchiladas.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'': [[BigBad Lord Shen]]'s soothsayer is a goat, and when he asks her to foretell the future, she takes a bite out of his fine silk robe (to Shen's fury) and drops it in her scrying bowl (using the magical principle of contagion.) But she must have liked the taste (or just [[DefiantCaptive likes messing with Shen]]) because he has to warn her against trying to bite his robe again.

* ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep'' had the appropriately-named Mower Mouth who chowed down on every inch of grass within his reach, old car tyres, bricks, and even fearlessly drank from the ''toilet''!

* 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 David Feldman's ''Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?'' an illustration accompanying the entry on what happened to used razor blades dropped down the disposal slot in hotel bathrooms depicts an eagerly waiting goat standing behind the wall one such slot is located on.

** 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]].

* As usual, Creator/TexAvery takes this trope and goes to town with it in the MGM cartoon "WesternAnimation/BillyBoy", 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]].

* ''WesternAnimation/Ferdinand'': Lupe, a calming goat for the bulls who doubles as a StomachOfHolding. On top of willingly eating sardine cans off the ground, she holds certain items inside her for later regurgitation.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ferdinand'''s Lupe, a calming goat for the bulls who doubles as a StomachOfHolding. On top of willingly eating sardine cans off the ground, she holds certain items inside her for later regurgitation.

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12888124/1/Happy-Endings Happy Endings]]'', Aberforth Dumbledore's goat eats his brother Albus' portrait.

* ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep'' had the appropriately-named Mower Mouth who chowed down on evry inch of grass within his reach, old car tyres, bricks, and even fearlessly drank from the ''toilet''!

** In fact, some goat breeders make a living out of renting their goats to fields experiencing outbreaks of noxious weeds. The goats are the safest and most efficient way to clear the fields, and the goats get fed. Win/win!

** 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. This was actually exploited by sailors, who dropped off herds of goats on islands like the Galapagos so that they could run wild and serve as a source of fresh meat for ships that passed by.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2''. [[BigBad Lord Shen]]'s soothsayer is a goat, and when he asks her to foretell the future, she takes a bite out of his fine silk robe (to Shen's fury) and drops it in her scrying bowl (using the magical principle of contagion.) But she must have liked the taste (or just [[DefiantCaptive likes messing with Shen]]) because he has to warn her against trying to bite his robe again.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'': A RunningGag entails [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Soothsayer]], a goat, taking bites out of [[BigBad Lord Shen]]'s robes whenever she got a chance.

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->''"I would like to make a robot goat, capable of eating the Internet," he said. "It would probably be called the Intergoat. Intergoat 2.0 would be wireless."''

* ''Anime/{{Futakoi}}'' has Nozomu constantly suffering from a goat [[ADogAteMyHomework eating his homework]]...and no one believes him.

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* ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'': [[RobotBuddy Probe]] purchases the "Lawnmower S8000" for his boss Adu Du, but the lawnmower turns 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.
* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' subverts the trope. Paddi the FunnyAnimal goat is a BigEater who is ObsessedWithFood, and in episode 7 of ''Joys of Seasons'' he goes as far as to try snacking on a tennis ball Weslie and Sparky were using. Paddi hates the taste of it.
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* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': Scrooge [=McDuck=] once bought a goat to guard his money bin in the comics. Unfortunately it both guarded and ate the money, so Scrooge sold it back to the previous owner.
* 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 the abbess of Good Abbey’s burlap habit.
* Referenced in one Creator/RobertCrumb ''Mr. Natural'' comic. Crumb is telling a city-dweller about how he needs to go out and actually live life, recommending that he goes out to spend some time at a farm. After being convinced, the city-dweller asks Mr. Natural if goats really eat cans -- and Mr. Natural immediately flies into a rage over the sheer absurdity of the question.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12888124/1/Happy-Endings Happy Endings]]'' Aberforth Dumbledore's goat eats his brother Albus' portrait.

* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'': A RunningGag entails [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Soothsayer]], a goat, taking bites out of [[BigBad Lord Shen]]'s robes whenever she got a chance.

* In the New Zealand-made film ''Film/Boy2010'', the titular character's pet goat eats [[spoiler:the money he hid in the old car in his backyard]].

* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': Grover is actually a satyr, but half-goat surely counts, and he certainly eats everything from tin cans to enchiladas.
* 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/ThomasAndFriends''.
* In one of the ''Little Eddie'' books by Carolyn Haywood, Eddie gets a goat, which his father eventually makes him take to their cousins who live on a ranch in Texas because the goat eats everything.

* ''The Pet Goat'', part of the "Reading Mastery" series for elementary schoolchildren, features an extreme omnigoat who accidentally becomes a hero after attacking a car thief. The book gained attention after being read by George W. Bush to an elementary school class in Florida--he was reading the book to the students when he was notified of the September 11 attacks, and infamously decided to stay and finish reading the book.

* ''Literature/BrownsPineRidgeStories'': The goats owned by a roaming goat herder had a habit of consuming everything in their path, which is compared to a cloud of locusts. They were particularly noted to chew the bark off of young pine trees.
* In ''The Roaring Trumpet'', the first ''Literature/HaroldShea'' novella, one of [[Myth/NorseMythology Thor's]] goats rips a chunk out of Shea's coat and eats it. According to Thjalfi, the goats also once ate a pile of human corpses, all of them except their belt-buckles. Probably justified in that these are after all ''Thor's'' goats, not ordinary farm animals.
* ''Literature/HankTheCowdog'': The story ''The Case of the Dancing Cowboy'' (which was originally serialized in newspapers and later released via audio, but not in a printed form) has Drover mentioning how he once knew a goat who "ate tin cans and ketchup bottles''. (And rose bushes.) Hank doesn't believe a word of it.
* ''Literature/MonsterOfTheMonthClub'': Book 1 mentions that the B&B's original lawnmower was a goat named Nancy, but she had to relocate to a farm outside of town after escaping and eating things in other peoples' yards (along with making one family move because of her odor).
* In Orwell's ''Literature/AnimalFarm''. Muriel the goat learned to read and would sometimes read newspapers, and eat them when she was done.
* Creator/JamesHerriot's ''All Things Bright and Beautiful'' describes how Herriot had to treat a goat who'd eaten a pair of her owner's summer underwear some time back (and when her owner realizes what they are, he cracks up laughing). Apparently, the elastic got caught on her tongue and she couldn't eat anything else until Herriot removed them from her throat. Her owner thinks it would have killed her if she'd swallowed them all the way, but Herriot says it might not have, recounting a case of an extreme omni-''cow'', which had had a tire in its stomach for quite some time with no problem.

* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': One episode involves the entire payroll being eaten by a goat (which had been bought by Klinger on the grounds of it being economically sound--he could, after all, get fresh milk from it). This causes numerous problems for the unit, as they must convince superiors that they [[RefugeInAudacity lost their money because a goat ate it]], and one character had taken a loan from another at a ludicrous interest rate on the assumption that he would be able to pay it back pretty much the next day. An inspector investigates the claim, and does not believe it. However, the staff arrange for the goat to get access to some very important paperwork the inspector is working on, and she promptly eats it as expected. Now, faced with the same story to tell his superiors about the paperwork, the inspector is forced to accept the payroll loss claim.

* In ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'', the stomachs of two celestial goats form an inter-dimensional mail delivery system--one is fed a letter, which the other will cough up no matter where it is.
* ''Series/SesameStreet;''
** An old animation features a song about the letter "O" and words containing it. At one point we see a goat "eating a bowl of bones, potatoes, and soap"... followed by the bowl itself.
** Another song had animals continuously coming and eating the singer's food, ending on a goat who ate the only things left: a pair of sneakers, and also taking 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.
* An episode of ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' had Sabrina calling in a guy with a bunch of goats to get rid of (read: eat) a bunch of magical poppies.
* An episode of ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'' has Raven harboring a goat in her house that eats her cellphone (among many other things).

* The song "Paddy [=McGinty=]'s Goat", though his preference was largely for clothing, especially the back of people's outfits.

* The Japanese children's song "Goat Mail" (やぎさんゆうびん ''Yagi-san Yuubin'') is about a black goat and a white goat who send letters to each other, but keep eating the letters before having a chance to read them.

* ''Music/TheyMightBeGiants'': In the official video for "The Mesopotamians", a goat eats the bobblehead figure of Gilgamesh.
* The kids' song "My Highland Goat" (known in some versions as "Bill Grogan's Goat") starts when the eponymous goat eats three red shirts off a washing line. In retaliation, its angry owner (or one of their relatives) tries to kill it via [[ChainedToARailway chaining it to a railroad track]].

-->One day it ate an oyster can,\\

And a clothesline full of shirts.

* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' universe, there is a creature in one of the races' army that basically goes around recycling waste material to make more units. Its description basically amounts to "a omnivorous space goat" making this Goats...[[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]]!

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* The Website/SCPFoundation has SCP-2282, simply known as [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2282 Goat.]] 2282's digestive tract is a winding, non-Euclidean mess with over 8000 separate stomachs and it eats by incorporating the space around whatever it's eating into its digestive system, resulting in [[BiggerOnTheInside over 17000 meters of innards with a weight of around 16 million kilograms being compressed into a goat-sized, 89 kg package]] that can eat just about anything from glue sticks to giraffes (as in, ''[[SwallowedWhole the whole thing]]'').

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'':
** In ''The Hungry Goat'' (1943), the eponymous goat seems to actually prefer metal, cans or otherwise. Of course, this causes no end of trouble for our hero, whose Navy ship the goat decides to eat. The single, rather small goat simply boards the ship and rapidly consumes anything he can get his teeth on, including an enormous length of chain that just vanishes into negative space.
** 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 radio can still be heard after the goat eats it, making Popeye and Olive think a burglar has broken into the house and is about to shoot them.
* In "WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie", a goat eats Minnie's ukulele and sheet music. So Mickey uses it as a [[ISophagus living phonograph]].
* In fact, [[OlderThanTheyThink this gag was actually a carryover]] from an ''WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit'' cartoon, "Rival Romeos".
* The wartime ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIlLEcjxv7w Scrap Happy]] [[WesternAnimation/ScrapHappyDaffy Daffy]]" had old-school Daffy Duck trying to build up a scrap heap for the war effort and matching wits with a Nazi goat who tried to eat it all.
* As usual, Creator/TexAvery takes this trope and goes to town with it in the MGM cartoon "WesternAnimation/BillyBoy", 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]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Averted when the family goes to a petting zoo. [[WrongGenreSavvy Homer tries to get a goat to eat a tin can]] and it won't do it.
** Then there's the two-headed crime-solving goat. One head eats tin cans and the other eats health food.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E11MarsUniversity Mars University]]", the goat outside the Financial Aid dormitory eats the sign that falls off the building.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGarfieldShow'': Subverted in an episode where Garfield gives a goat a tin can so it could lick the glue off it, only for the goat to think he's trying to feed it the can and attack him.
* In ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'', we have a tribe of warrior goat-people who are fiercely protective of their food supply, which is... everything but the kitchen sink.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Non-goat example -- in one episode, [=SpongeBob=] is forced to release his new seahorse, Mystery, back into the world on Mr. Krab's orders after it eats the krabby patties, spatula, grill, and even an old man (although he spits him out afterwards). Moments afterwards, Mr. Krabs and [=SpongeBob=] discover that Mystery ate all the money in the safe and chase after it calling its name, right before the episode ends.
* ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep'' had the appropriately-named Mower Mouth who chowed down on evry inch of grass within his reach, old car tyres, bricks, and even fearlessly drank from the ''toilet''!
* In addition to the adaptation of "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS1E4EdwardGordonAndHenry Edward, Gordon and Henry]]" (see the Literature section), ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' also gives us the episode, "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS5E8Baa 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.
-->'''Sir Topham Hatt''': Well, seems I wouldn't be able to eat my hat even if I had to.
* In a radio play of the German TV puppet series ''Das Sandmännchen'', one story revolved around a boy getting a goat named Erna who ''loves'' paper and turns it into confetti [[UnusualEuphemism on the other end]].
* ''WesternAnimation/LetsGoLuna'': The goat from "Mukandi's Farm", who obviously likes to eat anything, even cellphones.

#### They cost relatively little to maintain, on account of their aforementioned ability to eat anything of plausibly-vegetable origin.
#### They produce wool and milk while alive and can be slaughtered for meat when they get too old. All three of these can either be consumed by the owner or sold at market.
#### They're livestock, so getting more of them and thus creating a sustainable business isn't much of an issue.

* In ''Webcomic/WizardSchool'' Graham's familiar Goatsie is interested in eating everything from sheets to loafers to [[http://www.meetmyminion.com/?p=1301 stripper heels.]]

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation has SCP-2282, simply known as [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2282 Goat.]] 2282's digestive tract is a winding, non-Euclidean mess with over 8000 separate stomachs and it eats by incorporating the space around whatever it's eating into its digestive system, resulting in [[BiggerOnTheInside over 17000 meters of innards with a weight of around 16 million kilograms being compressed into a goat-sized, 89 kg package]] that can eat just about anything from glue sticks to giraffes (as in, ''[[SwallowedWhole the whole thing]]'').