History Main / ExtremeOmnivore

** In "The Supermarket," Bolt is portrayed as being willing to eat almost anything, no matter how disgusting it is. He even admits to this later when he says, "Pig innards aren’t even the nastiest thing I’ve eaten today."
---> '''Mittens:''' Coming from a critter who’ll eat almost anything organic no matter how gross it is, that’s not exactly a ringing endorsement.

---> '''Mittens:''' Geez, anything could happen, you know? Bolt could get hit by a car or eat food loaded with poison by mistake and kick the bucket, just like that. And darn him, he’ll chow down on almost anything. He’s such a dog that way.

#'''Unpicky Eater:''' The milder of the two and can apply to ordinary unpowered individuals. This character is willing to eat things that may be perfectly nutritious, but are either considered unhygienic (e.g., it fell on the floor, or another character has been eating it, or [[ItCameFromTheFridge it's expired and/or spoiled]]), or taboo (e.g., insects, horseflesh) in that character's society. They may be indifferent to, or ignorant of, the social conventions that keep most people from eating those things, or they might be from another culture or species where such things are accepted. Perhaps they may just be so desperate for food that they don't care, in which case that would overlap with TooDesperateToBePicky. Often they have a BizarreTasteInFood. This version can exist in [[TruthInTelevision real life]]. They may also be the [[OnlyOneFindsItFun only one who likes]] food produced by the CordonBleughChef or the LethalChef.

* ''Fanfic/AShadowOfTheTitans'': Jade once bit the tongs off her spoon, and only noticed when she tried to pick up another bite. She lampshades it multiple times, and Jinx makes a RunningGag out of asking Jade if she's part [[ExtremOmniGoat goat]] or something.

* ''ComicStrip/GetFuzzy'': Satchel is one; he has eaten seat cushions, candles, and [[https://www.gocomics.com/getfuzzy/2020/02/01 ''the remote for the TV.'']]

* ''ComicStrip/GetFuzzy'': Satchel is one; he has eaten seat cushions, candles, and ''the remote for the TV.''

-->-- '''Andrew''', ''Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern''

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[-[[caption-width-right:310:[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Matter-Eater Lad]] doing what he does best.]]-]

* ''Fanfic/WithThisRing'': The orange light is the light of avarice, so as his skills progress, the protagonist is able to use it to "consume" anything, even intangibles like magic. Nearby metals are corroded, spells are drained, and even Maltusians are well advised to back away and shield themselves.
--> '''Paul''': FEED ME!

Compare PasteEater. HordeOfAlienLocusts can be an entire species of this. ExtremeOmniGoat is a subtrope where this applies to goats. A character like this is likely to be a BigEater, though a BigEater generally restricts themselves to things ordinarily considered food. Compare ExtremeOmnisexual. Contrast PickyEater and UnconventionalFoodUsage.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12664158/chapters/28865343 Eater]]'': Izuku has a Quirk called Real Eater that lets him eat ''anything'' including things that have no substance like laughter, Quirks, and his injuries (not his flesh, the fact he was injured at all).

* ''Fanfic/WithThisRing'': The orange light is the light of avarice, so as his skills progress, the protagonist is able to use it to "consume" anything, even intangibles like magic. He's not literally eating things, but at a conceptual level, his ring is feeding on them.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': Garfield will eat anything that's edible, including things like chocolate that would kill a real cat. However, even he has his limits -- he hates raisins, and Jon's cooking at times. He also refuses to eat mice, much to Jon's disappointment. He's eaten a few inedible objects too, although in most cases it's by accident because he's shoveling down his food so fast he doesn't realize until it's too late. Deliberate examples include swallowing the TV remote to keep Jon from getting it, and eating Jon's wallet because it was made from cowhide. On another occasion, he starts eating the ''fridge'' after finding it empty, and says that he's "had worse".

* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' fits this.
** He'll eat anything that's edible, including things like chocolate that would kill a real cat. Although even he has his limits - he hates raisins, and Jon's cooking at times. He also refuses to eat mice, much to Jon's disappointment.
** He's eaten a few inedible objects too, although in most cases it's by accident because he's shoveling down his food so fast he doesn't realize until it's too late. Deliberate examples include swallowing the TV remote to keep Jon from getting it, and eating Jon's wallet because it was made from cowhide. On another occasion, he starts eating the ''fridge'' after finding it empty, and says that he's "had worse".

* Izuku in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12664158/chapters/28865343 Eater]]'' has a Quirk called Real Eater that lets him eat ''anything'' including things that have no substance like laughter, Quirks, and his injuries (not his flesh, the fact he was injured at all).
* In several ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' fanfics, Doc Boy from ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' would often show up or be mentioned. In these fics, he's been known to eat ANYTHING, [[ImAHumanitarian including people]].
* After transforming into a dragon in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5585493/1/Enter-the-Dragon Enter the Dragon]]'', Harry Potter eats pretty much anything and everything, with a particular fondness for petrol and steel. The only material Harry is shown to dislike the taste of is wood. When he gets a cave to use as a lair, Harry expands it by eating the stone until he decides his lair is big enough.
* Blackjack, from ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestriaProjectHorizons'', starts out as just an unpicky eater, nomming down happily on a LethalChef's cooking and ForeignQueasine with gusto, but when she's augumented, it really takes off. Bonus points go to when she's hit with an assassination attempt and, instead, eats the knife.
* An aged-regressed Reimu from the later parts of the ''Fanfic/Gensokyo20XX'' series. Slightly justified because she was mentally conditioned to not have a sense of danger or question anything that doesn't seem right (her own reasonings, especially), so, besides SniffSniffNom or putting things in her mouth in general, she'll eat anything the other kids might find disgusting or get bored of.
-->'''Reimu''':"I like ratburgers."
--> '''Sakuya''': "Reimu, you eat anything in which it is you pick up[...]"
* In ''Fanfic/HardBeingPure'', Noa cannot properly eat like a normal person, and instead gains sustenance from the matter she disintegrates through her telekinetic power. She can use her power to digest just about anything.
* A good chunk of humor in ''Fanfic/HarryIsADragonAndThatsOK'' is Dragon!Harry being able to eat virtually anything. He's eaten everything from plastic packaging, hedge trimmings, metal cutlery and glitter to potion ingredients and Howlers. Once the House Elves get wind of this, they start serving specially marked Harry-only dishes made with otherwise inedible ingredients, like metal and hemlock.[[spoiler: The hemlock was actually a poisoning attempt, but Harry didn't notice.]]
* L is this in ''Fanfic/LightAndDarkTheAdventuresOfDarkYagami''. At one point, the narration casually mentions him eating a TV remote.
* In ''Fanfic/TheNightmareHouse'', baby [[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse Lily Loud]] doesn't know what a mortgage is, so she dreams it's a ravenous beast named Mor-Gaj, who eats money, Rita's purse, and tries to eat her.
* In ''Fanfic/TheParselmouthOfGryffindor'' All food gets magically vanished — turned into magical energy — the moment it enters his body, anyway, so Maximilian pulls no stops and does things like eating the wrapping along with the candy.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' fic ''Fanfic/QueenOfAllOni'', after Jade becomes a Shadowkan girl once more, her [[BigEater appetite and metabolism go way up]], and in one chapter, she [[spoiler: eats a rib, BONE AND ALL]]!

* While it was already clear in canon, in the WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse fic ''Fanfic/SelaginellaLepidophylla'', Amethyst discusses marinating something in soap as part of her meal.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' and ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' crossover fic ''Fanfic/AShadowOfTheTitans'' (by the same author), this is also true, and focused more on, with Jade lampshading it multiple times, and Jinx making a RunningGag out of asking Jade if she's part goat or something (to be clear, she once bit the tongs off her spoon, and only noticed when she tried to pick up another bite!).
* In ''Fanfic/TwilaTheGirlWhoWazInLuvWithAVampyre'', the protagonists eat Bella's '''bed''' after they kill her "so there would be no evidenze (lol geddit like [[Music/{{Evanescence}} evinezenze]].)"
* Humans and dinosaurs in ''FanFic/TyrantKings'' are noted as being the only sapient species that can safely consume both dextro and levo amino based foods, whereas every other race will at best gain no nutrition from one and at worst have a fatal allergic reaction.

Compare PasteEater. HordeOfAlienLocusts can be an entire species of this. ExtremeOmniGoat is a subtrope where this applies to goats. A character like this is likely to be a BigEater, though a BigEater generally restricts themselves to things ordinarily considered food. Compare ExtremeOmnisexual. Contrast PickyEater.

* At the end of the infamous Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Egg and Spoon VanityPlate, the egg monster turns to the viewer and [[EatTheCamera eats the camera like it's nothing more than pie]].

* While it was already clear in canon, in the WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse fic ''Fanfic/SelaginellaLepidophylla'', Amethyst discusses marinating something in soap as part of her meal.
* In ''Fanfic/TheParselmouthOfGryffindor'' All food gets magically vanished — turned into magical energy — the moment it enters his body, anyway, so Maximilian pulls no stops and does things like eating the wrapping along with the candy.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' fic ''Fanfic/QueenOfAllOni'', after Jade becomes a Shadowkan girl once more, her [[BigEater appetite and metabolism go way up]], and in one chapter, she [[spoiler: eats a rib, BONE AND ALL]]!
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' and ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' crossover fic ''Fanfic/AShadowOfTheTitans'' (by the same author), this is also true, and focused more on, with Jade lampshading it multiple times, and Jinx making a RunningGag out of asking Jade if she's part goat or something (to be clear, she once bit the tongs off her spoon, and only noticed when she tried to pick up another bite!).
* In ''Fanfic/TwilaTheGirlWhoWazInLuvWithAVampyre'', the protagonists eat Bella's '''bed''' after they kill her "so there would be no evidenze (lol geddit like [[Music/{{Evanescence}} evinezenze]].)"
* In ''Fanfic/HardBeingPure'', Noa cannot properly eat like a normal person, and instead gains sustenance from the matter she disintegrates through her telekinetic power. She can use her power to digest just about anything.
* In several ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' fanfics, Doc Boy from ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' would often show up or be mentioned. In these fics, he's been known to eat ANYTHING, [[ImAHumanitarian including people]].

* Blackjack, from ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestriaProjectHorizons'', starts out as just an unpicky eater, nomming down happily on a LethalChef's cooking and ForeignQueasine with gusto, but when she's augumented, it really takes off. Bonus points go to when she's hit with an assassination attempt and, instead, eats the knife.
* A good chunk of humor in ''Fanfic/HarryIsADragonAndThatsOK'' is Dragon!Harry being able to eat virtually anything. He's eaten everything from plastic packaging, hedge trimmings, metal cutlery and glitter to potion ingredients and Howlers. Once the House Elves get wind of this, they start serving specially marked Harry-only dishes made with otherwise inedible ingredients, like metal and hemlock.[[spoiler: The hemlock was actually a poisoning attempt, but Harry didn't notice.]]
* After transforming into a dragon in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5585493/1/Enter-the-Dragon Enter the Dragon]]'', Harry Potter eats pretty much anything and everything, with a particular fondness for petrol and steel. The only material Harry is shown to dislike the taste of is wood. When he gets a cave to use as a lair, Harry expands it by eating the stone until he decides his lair is big enough.
* Humans and dinosaurs in ''FanFic/TyrantKings'' are noted as being the only sapient species that can safely consume both dextro and levo amino based foods, whereas every other race will at best gain no nutrition from one and at worst have a fatal allergic reaction.
* Izuku in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12664158/chapters/28865343 Eater]]'' has a Quirk called Real Eater that lets him eat ''anything'' including things that have no substance like laughter, Quirks, and his injuries (not his flesh, the fact he was injured at all).

* A good chunk of humor in ''Fanfic/HarryIsADragonAndThatsOK'' is Dragon!Harry being able to eat virtually anything. He's eaten everything from plastic packaging, hedge trimmings, metal cutlery and glitter to potion ingredients and Howlers. Once the House Elves get wind of this, they start serving Harry-only dishes made with otherwise inedible ingredients, like metal and hemlock.

'''DontTryThisAtHome''', seriously. People have ''died'' trying to eat things not meant for human consumption. At best, you'll feel sick to your stomach. At worse, you'll die because of it.

* [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier Ghouls]] from ''Podcast/LessIsMorgue'' will eat pretty much anything - examples in the show so far include both living things and corpses, as well as glue, soap, straight mayonnaise, a car tire, bugs, and rodents. It's [[Squick pretty gross]].