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Extreme Omnivore: Western Animation
  • The Tasmanian Devil in Looney Tunes is the animated archetype for this character. Many of the jokes in the WB shorts featuring him involve other characters easily tricking him into eating something that no sane creature would, like burning sticks of dynamite, inflatable life rafts, and in one case, an entire refridgerator.
    • Likewise with the spin off series Tiny Toon Adventures with the character of Dizzy Devil, a younger Tasmanian Devil. One episode even featured the characters having a contest, "Will Dizzy Eat it?" where Dizzy was fed various things including a jet plane.
    • Taz's entire family has shown signs of being Extreme Omnivores, although none of them to the extent that Taz is.
  • Gil from Gravedale High is often seen eating bugs, or more often, his Trademark Favorite Food, pizza.
  • Jim from Mission Hill was constantly eating everything in sight, including leftover food in restaurants and a chunk of the apartment sofa.
    • Stoagie falls under this as well. Then again, he's a dog. So it's probably within the realm of normal.
  • The Archmage on Gargoyles ate the Grimotum Achenorum in order to subvert a rule that Avalon has about bringing human magic onto the island.
  • Cyborg, in the Teen Titans episode Crash is infected with a computer virus, making him perceive objects and various people as some of his favorite foods. Normally, Cyborg is a Big Eater. Mayhem and Hilarity Ensues.
    • Starfire of the Teen Titans exhibits Extreme Omnivore behavior occasionally, though usually out of ignorance of what Earthlings consider food (or out of the habits borne of some of the really gross things that Tamaraneans do consider food). For instance, she considers mustard to be a most delicious beverage.
    • Also, in the episode he was introduced, Silkie ate his way through half the contents of Titans Tower.
    • Terra, too, shows herself to be one. For one thing, she's the only person to stomach Starfire's food and like it!
  • Gonard from Kappa Mikey alternates between a Big Eater and an Extreme Omnivore on a whim, and is generally the epitome of either (when not the epitome of both). During one scene, he took video cameras from people, put them on a sandwich, and, at the end of the chase scene, ate it on one bite.
    • He basically will eat anything if it's put into a sandwich.
  • South Park has Kenny, who is not against consuming anything if dared, offered money for, or to get high. Amongst his exploits is drinking gasoline and getting high on cat urine.
  • Ed from Ed Edd N Eddy apparently never listened to the old adage "never eat anything bigger than your head": when sitting down to a bowl of soup, he eats the bowl as well, and Eddy once tricked Ed into eating his bed.
    Ed: [wipes his mouth after eating the bed] That hit the spot!
  • Anti-Wanda from The Fairly OddParents will eat anything. Often with her feet.
  • A Running Gag in Drawn Together involving Toot is her habit of eating literally anything that she can grasp (she is a one-dimensional fat joke, after all). She has eaten remote controls, refrigerators, large automobiles and even people (she has eaten at least two housemates on separate occasions).
  • Big Dog in Two Stupid Dogs is pretty much capable of eating anything he would want to eat, in one occasion even functioning as a canine vacuum cleaner. His eating habits are comparable to Guu (mentioned above), in a way that anything he eats is capable of coming out again in one piece (if mostly covered in saliva). Unless he actually chewed, of course.
    Little Dog: I just saw an airplane!
    Big Dog: I can eat an airplane.
  • The cartoon Fat Dog Mendoza stars the titular dog (who's actually more spherical than fat) and literally stores things inside himself.
  • One episode of The Life and Times of Juniper Lee featured a creature known as a "Batoot", which ate anything in its path, and had the added misery of bringing bad luck with it wherever it went, the severity of which was measured by its unhappiness. The more miserable it became, the worse the circumstances around it became. When Juniper was supposed to take care of it until its herd returned, the large green (but somehow endearing-looking) creature devoured the entire contents of both the attic and the basement of Juniper's home.
  • Wakko Warner of Animaniacs fame is known to eat anything, at one occasion even eating the lightbulb that appeared when Yakko got an idea.
  • If you see a goat in a cartoon, you can bet your bottom dollar it's an Extreme Omnivore. It will often go for clothes drying on the line (or even when someone is wearing them!), but its preferences run more toward tin cans and other metal objects. This is taken to the extreme in the Tex Avery cartoon Billy Boy in which a baby goat devours (among other things) a wheelbarrow, furniture, a car engine, hundreds of miles of railroad track, the Moon and even a frame right out of the film.
    • The same thing applies to ostriches. They tend to swallow things whole in a snakelike manner, with similar visual results as the bulge travels down the bird's long, thin neck.
    • This behavior has some Truth in Television (though it tends to get exaggerated in fictional portrayals), since both goats and ostriches are known to have tendencies toward dietary indiscretion.
    • You CAN also see the outline of whole fish going down when birds with long, thin necks swallow them whole.
    • Sheep aren't that omnivorous, but still stuff themselves with plants poisonous to other grazers... or nitro compounds. Yes, a sheep can eat TNT and break it down.
  • Baby Animal on Muppet Babies.
  • Homer Simpson from The Simpsons has been known to eat some very weird stuff. He's eaten stuff like bacon mixed with fudge, butter in his coffee, a horse head, and a bag of flour, He's also eaten some inedible stuff like a pair of mens' slacks (which apparently tasted better than Indian cuisine), a bowl of change, a jar of petroleum jelly, and a rubber biter covered in petroleum jelly. However, he doesn't like eating anything that's low in fat.
    • In one episode, he ate the baking soda that had been in the back of the fridge before they even first moved in (before subsequently going on an 'antacid trip'). Lisa is then revealed to be on a first name basis with the Poison Control Hotline operator.
    • Bart tries to do this to win a contest where you try to humiliate yourself as much as possible, but the audience proves too much for him ("Please, no more spark plugs.")
  • Dr. Zoidberg of Futurama has been known to eat anything he can get his claws on, including a boot from the ocean floor, a weeks-old moldy sandwich, a tiny edible crown (made of wood), cholesterol scraped from one of Fry's arteries, the Earth Flag, a deviled egg surgically extracted from his stomach and a live raccoon he found in his shell after fishing it out of a dumpster. He has also expressed curiosity as to what the Shroud of Turin tastes like.
    • His race was single-handedly responsible for the extinction of the anchovy.
    • Nibbler. Oh, God, Nibbler.
      • All of the Niblonians for that matter. Feast of a Thousand Beasts anyone?
  • The titular character of Chowder can be classified as this. He's known to eat other things than food such as maps and even once eating a marching band (but he let them go soon afterwards)
  • Oddly, Anakin in the Star Wars Clone Wars miniseries brings a bag of bugs and worms to the little makeshift shelter he and Obi-Wan hang out in while waiting out a protracted siege and starts happily chomping on them. When Obi-Wan expresses his disgust, Anakin quips about how Obi-Wan always taught him to "feed off the living Force".
  • Remy the rat's relatives in Ratatouille, but they are rats.
    Remy: What...are you eating?!
    Emile: I don't really know. I think it was some sort of wrapper once.
  • Heffer from Rocko's Modern Life.
    • Spunky even more so.
  • In one episode of Beast Wars, Dinobot finds a clone of himself infiltrating the Maximal base, and... well, take a guess how he deals with it.
    Dinobot: He was such a handsome fellow... and, quite tasty. *picks last bit of the clone out of his teeth, hitting Optimus in the face with it, and belches*
    Optimus Primal: ...You're disgusting.
  • The lizard-thing in Ferngully is apparently very pleased to be eating Zac and cheerfully gulps down a snail and plants as he chases after the poor guy.
  • Buster from Arthur once ate ice cream with fish in it
    • Actually, there is salmon-flavored ice cream served at a parlor in Hawaii. It comes with a complementary bucket in case you find yourself needing to vomit.
  • Beezy and his girlfriend Saffi on Jimmy Two Shoes are known to eat just about anything, sometimes snatching it up frog-like with their tounges.
  • Stitch's appetite expanded from just eating alien food in the movie, to gobbling anything that strikes his fancy in Lilo And Stitch The Series. Throughout the series he's eaten garbage, tools, nuts and bolts, a can of macadamia nuts, a left shoe, several cans of soda, Mertle's awful rock-hard muffins, a container of fresh eggs and even Mertle's dog (thought he spit it out later).
    • There was also moments of extreme eating from Stitch's cousins. In one episode there was an experiment named Tank that was solely designed to eat metal and grow bigger and an experiment named Wishy-Washy who was briefly seen eating a pack of comic books
  • One Goofy episode from Disney's House of Mouse had Goofy learning etiquette. At the dining table he eats the meal set in front of him, and then eats his metal utensils, plate, and table (he justifies that he needed the iron).
  • Owen from Total Drama Island, whose steel-clad stomach (downing everything from Chef Hatchet's food, cockroaches, bull testicles, and even dog food) landed him in the finals. And he won!
    • Yet he got pretty ill in Total Drama Action after eating an entire buffet of foam-core food.
      • He still nethertheless found it delicious
  • In Justice League, one of John Stewart's fellow Green Lanterns, Kilowog, is shown to apparently be this in a scene where he and Flash were poking around John's apartment. Flash first finds a carton of "Bob and Terry's" ice cream in the freezer and shows it to Kilowog, who tosses the entire carton into his mouth, eats it, and declares it "delicious!" Flash then continues searching and finds a VHS tape of Old Yeller. He gives it to Kilowog just to show him, but once again, Kilowog tosses it in his mouth and eats it, declaring it "delicious!"
  • Shaggy in Scooby-Doo is a human whose Trademark Favorite Food is a brand of dog biscuit.
  • Just about every pizza Michelangelo prepares and eats in the '87 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, such as peanut butter and clams, chocolate fudge with garlic, and strawberry with anchovy sauce.
  • One episode of Bonkers dealt with Bonkers and Lucky re-institutionalizing a hairy beast known as The Louse who devoured everything in sight, when Lucky tries to better his table manners he eats the entire table along with the plate and eating utensils.
  • Pinkie Pie of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has shown a willingness to eat virtually anything, eating cupcakes with hot sauce and ashen lumps that are supposedly cupcakes without complaint. Her first reaction to seeing a vat of rainbow was to taste it, and it's the only thing she's complained about the flavor of on-screen — although she had some bizarre muffins that made her sick, she didn't actually comment on their flavor. So she's probably an Extreme Herbivore at best.
    • Spike from the same definitely qualifies — he prefers eating gemstones, but can and often will eat literally anything. Including eating and enjoying said muffins. After seeing a live earthworm stick its head out of one.
    • There's also the Parasprites. Twilight tried to stop them from eating all the food by casting a spell to make them stop eating food. They started eating everything else.
    • Rarity and Sweetie Belle's parents enjoyed the latter's horrible food, which included ashes (burnt juice) and a bowl of bubbling ooze (toast).
    • Pumpkin Cake will always try to eat everything that isn't food. She even tries to eat her own hoof. However, it's probably just being a baby and chewing on everything in sight as they are prone to do.
    • Discord, reality warping Anthropomorphic Personification of chaos that he is, once drank a glass of chocolate milk, then tossed aside the chocolate milk. Another time he ate a bowl of paper, specifically the pages of Twilight's spellbooks that had the spell she was looking for.
  • The alien race in Ben 10 referred to as 'Gourmands' (or, as Ben himself calls said form, 'Upchuck') are essentially an entire species that are this trope, with the added benefit of weaponising what they eat by spitting it back at their enemies with great force. Amusingly, they seem to be incapable processing anything which would be edible to a human.
  • Chris from Dan Vs. It takes him a while to register that he's eaten something human beings really shouldn't eat.
  • Ringo Starr in The Beatles. In one episode, George Harrison complains that he's so hungry he could eat his guitar, and Ringo tells him in all seriousness that guitars taste terrible and offers him a (literal) drumstick instead. George gets angry and shoves the drumstick into his mouth, and he shrugs his shoulders and eats it.
  • Gravity Falls: Implied in "Fight Fighters" when we see one of Mabel's drinks contains a strange cyclops Troll Doll and several dice, all in a green fluid.
    • Mabel also once ate an entire tube of toothpaste, just because it was sparkly.

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