Basic Trope: Goats (and occasionally rams) are portrayed as creepy and/or evil, and are often associated with demonic/satanic themes.
- Straight: Gary the goat is frightening and evil.
- Exaggerated:
- Goats and rams are Always Chaotic Evil.
- Xenophobic Herbivore Gary is a Complete Monster.
- All Goats and rams are portrayed as Animalistic Abominations.
- Downplayed: Goats are seen as fairly creepy, but aren't necessarily focused on much.
- Justified:
- Gary has some reason to be as evil as he is, such as a Freudian Excuse.
- Goats are occasionally known to be aggressive animals in real life.
- Inverted: Sweet Sheep
- Subverted: Although Gary is believed to be evil, he is revealed to be Good All Along.
- Double Subverted:
- Though Dark Is Not Evil is in full effect—just because Gary isn't evil doesn't mean he can't be rather terrifying.
- Gary becomes a villain.
- Parodied: Alice and Bob are terrified at the sight of Gary, a normal goat on a farm eating grass.
- Zig-Zagged: Gary the goat is seen as creepy, and isn’t evil at first, but he later becomes evil. However, other goat characters are not seen as creepy and are good.
- Averted: Goats are not creepy/evil at all.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: “Why are goats always depicted as demonic? I guess their horns and weird eyes are creepy, but do people actually find them scary?”
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