History Webcomic / Goats

* [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters and many others...]]

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Infinite Monkeys

'''Fish:''' From [[http://www.goats.com/archive/070315.html doom!]]

* '''Oliver''' Diablo's foul-mouthed, AxCrazy son.

* '''Bob''', and '''Neil''' a pair of [[TheGrays aliens]] with a FlyingSaucer.

* '''Jon''' the AuthorAvatar, probable WeirdnessMagnet.
* '''Phillip''' a programmer who may be TheChosenOne.
* '''Toothgnip''' formerly one of Thor's chariot-pulling goats.
* '''Diablo''' a {{Satan}} worshiping chicken who can reattach his body parts.

* '''Fish''' a rather sweet-natured, naïve goldfish who lives in beer.
* '''Fineas''' Fish's badass, cybernetic alter ego, who eventually got his own body.
* '''Bob''' and '''Neil''' a pair of [[TheGrays aliens]] with a FlyingSaucer.
* '''Farmella''' a DefectorFromDecadence who has the Knack for dimension-hopping along the Pub Axis.
* '''One Death''' a god of the Mayan underworld who runs a software company.

* CousinOliver: The aptly-named Oliver, whose creation (by Diablo) was arranged by the infinite monkeys to be a more youthful addition to the regular cast. He's a violent, disrespectful, mean-spirited little bastard whose speech patterns appear to be a parody of ''SouthPark''.

* ShoutOut: Quite a few to ''FantasyIsland'', including a picture on the wall in some early strips that changed between panels to feature a different member of the show's cast. Also a couple to ''Literature/{{Dune}}'', particularly the early strip where Diablo swipes from Jon's spice cabinet in the belief that it will help him control the universe.

* BigEater -- The Doughboys can devour creatures many times their own size.
* [[BSideComics B Side Comic]] -- [[http://www.goats.com/archive/080102.html megaGAMERZ 3133t]], a [[DadaComics Dada Comic]] [[FictionalDocument written by Diablo]].

* CarnivoreConfusion -- Totally avoided. People eat food made of animals. {{TalkingAnimal}}s eat food made out of [[HumanResources people]]. The PlantAliens seem to be omnivores, too. Everybody's happy.
* ChewbaccaDefense -- When Jon was accused of baking Mrs. Truman's first-grade class into cookies, he got off because the cookies were [[http://www.goats.com/archive/971005.html delicious.]]
* ContinuityReboot: Invoked in-story [[http://goats.com/index.php?id=726 here]], when a couple of the monkeys get hold of the requisite typewriter and contemplate resolving all the problems they have with other characters.
* TheCouch -- Many early strips feature the characters sitting on TheCouch watching TV.

* DeusExMachina -- The Doughboys, a DeusExMachina that comes in a handy pocket size. Note that this an in-universe DeusExMachina, as the monkeys wrote them into existence to help Phillip.
* EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt -- Or at least the Multiverse if the program on Woody Allen's laptop isn't fixed before the Mayan Calendar rolls over in 2012.

* FlyingSaucer -- Neil and Bob's CoolShip.

* {{God}} -- Jon and Phillip tricked him into turning into a pork chop, and then ate him.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal -- Diablo, whose main problem with getting dismembered is tracking down his various body parts afterwards.
* TheGrays -- Neil and Bob

* IncrediblyLamePun -- Fineas.
* InnBetweenTheWorlds -- The Pub Stub, an "aborted fetus universe" through which all other planes of existence can be accessed.
* ItRunsOnNonsensoleum -- The engine of Bob and Neil's UFO allegedly runs off the happiness produced by teleporting kittens to good homes. No one knows where the Pop-Tarts come from.
** BrickJoke -- years later, when most of the inhabitants of the Earth are in suspended animation due to lack of Writers, the Math Führer has developed a Theory of Everything which proves "zat kittens is mathematically interchangeable vith ze brechfasst pastry!"

* LetsMeetTheMeat -- The Doughboys don't talk but appear to be sentient, and don't seem to mind being eaten. Also, Thor's goats, as in the original Norse myths.

* LosingYourHead -- An recurring problem for Diablo. TheMerch includes a Diablo action figure with a detachable head.
* MadeFromRealGirlScouts -- Actually, that's too cliched -- Diablo used Mrs. Truman's first-grade class [[http://www.goats.com/archive/970924.html instead.]] This is not the only case of HumanResources being used for [[Film/SoylentGreen cooking.]] Given that the humans eat meat and some of the main characters are {{TalkingAnimal}}s (food animals, at that), this seems fair.
* MillenniumBug -- In the Mayan calendar.
* MobileSuitHuman -- More literally than usual -- Oliver rides around on the headless, cyborged corpse of a motorcycle gang leader. A [[SubvertedTrope subversion]], as it's not really designed to blend in.
* MonkeysOnATypewriter -- The basis for the "Infinite Monkeys" arc. God's editors are actually monkeys and their typing dictates the "script" for each universe (the two in charge of Manhattan 3 become regular characters). It's shown that without them writing these scripts, the inhabitants of the universe in question just sink into ennui.
* TheMultiverse -- the home dimension of most of the main characters is known as Manhattan 3. Others are Xibalba, Topeka Prime, Middle Pangaea, and the Infinite Monkey dimension. Some of the universes overlap with Rosenberg's other strip, ''Scenes from a Multiverse''.
* MundaneFantastic -- The comic started here and branched out with the Infinite Typewriters arc.
* NailedToTheWagon -- Phillip in the multiverse.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero -- and by "it" we mean the entire multiverse.
* OrphanedSeries -- ''And how.''

* PhysicalGod -- {{God}} until he got eaten. Also, Thor.
* PlantAliens -- Hooray for diversity!

* RealLifeWritesThePlot -- sometimes [[http://www.goats.com/archive/970416.html amusingly.]]
* RunningGag -- Diablo [[LosingYourHead losing his head]], Jon's bad luck with women
* {{Satan}} -- [[http://www.goats.com/archive/050516.html got red skin and 100% less plaid shirts.]] Or does he?

* StupidJetpackHitler -- There is an [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe series of movies]] featuring [[RefugeInAudacity Good Hitler]] as a TuxedoAndMartini secret agent.
* TakeThat -- Microsoft
* TalkingAnimal -- Toothgnip, Diablo, Oliver, Fish, Fines

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight -- "I am '''Thor,''' god of thunder!" [[http://www.goats.com/archive/970403.html "He's blocking the TV."]]
* WeirdnessCensor -- People in Manhattan-3 seem not to notice quite how weird Jon and Phillip's friends are. [[http://www.goats.com/archive/971015.html Come take a gander at this funny short chap.]]

* InnBetweenTheWorlds -- The Pub Stub.

* KingOfAllCosmos: God takes the form of a pirate (or a guy in a Halloween pirate costume, really), calls himself Larry, and is eventually killed when he's tricked into changing into a pork chop, after which he is eaten.

* MonkeysOnATypewriter -- The basis for the "Infinite Monkeys" arc.
* TheMultiverse -- the home dimension of most of the main characters is known as Manhattan 3. Others are Xibalba, Topeka Prime, Middle Pangaea, and the Infinite Monkey dimension.

* TalkingAnimal -- Toothgnip, Diablo, Oliver, Fish, Fineas

* ShoutOut

A web comic by Jon Rosenberg. It started in April, 1997 and stopped updating at the end of April 2010 when the author hit financial troubles, and (despite Rosernberg's promises to the contrary) seems to be effectively abandoned now. It started out as MundaneFantastic, but with the Infinite Typewriters arc branched out into a [[TheMultiverse multiversal]] WorldOfWeirdness. It features a diverse cast of characters having wacky, dimension-hopping, SpeculativeFiction adventures. The main characters include:

* CarnivoreConfusion -- Totally avoided. People eat food made of animals. {{TalkingAnimal}}s eat food made out of [[SoylentGreen people]]. The PlantAliens seem to be omnivores, too. Everybody's happy.

* MadeFromRealGirlScouts -- Actually, that's too cliched -- Diablo used Mrs. Truman's first-grade class [[http://www.goats.com/archive/970924.html instead.]] This is not the only case of HumanResources being used for [[SoylentGreen cooking.]] Given that the humans eat meat and some of the main characters are {{TalkingAnimal}}s (food animals, at that), this seems fair.

* [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt End Of The Multiverse As We Know It]] -- if the program on Woody Allen's laptop isn't fixed before the Mayan Calendar rolls over in 2012.
* [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys Everything's Better With Infinite Monkeys]]

* TheMerch

This webcomic contains examples of:

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The webcomic can be found [[http://www.goats.com/ here.]]

* HollywoodHomely -- Jon, who looks no worse than the other characters, to the point of his unattractiveness being an InformedFlaw.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes - The official site for the webcomic no longer has the majority of the comic's strips on it any longer. Anything from prior to mid-2003 or after mid-2004 can only reliably be found by means of the Internet Archives now.

* WriteWhoYouKnow -- Phillip, Lori, and a number of one-shots. And, of course, Jon himself.

A web comic by Jon Rosenberg. It started in April, 1997 and stopped updating at the end of April 2010 when the author hit financial troubles, and (despite Rosernberg's promises to the contrary) seems to be effectively abandoned now. It started out as MundaneFantastic, but with the Infinite Typewriters arc branched out into a [[TheMultiverse multiversal]] PlanetEris. It features a diverse cast of characters having wacky, dimension-hopping, SpeculativeFiction adventures. The main characters include:

* PlanetEris -- a whole multiverse full of them.