History Main / GruesomeGoat

Goats are often explicitly tied to satanic themes and demonology, as various demons -- most notably {{Baphomet}} and Satan himself -- have traditionally been depicted as wholly or partly caprine in appearance; {{Big Red Devil}}s often have goatish horns -- or even entirely caprine heads -- and hooves, as well as goatees, as part of their demonic appearance.

* ''ComicBook/{{Plush}}'': Scratch's suit is a demonic-appearing goat. When Devin points out the Satanic imagery, Scratch admits it wasn't on purpose, but leans into it later by adding a pentagram to the outfit.

* ''ComicBook/{{Plush}}'': Scratch's suit is a demonic-appearing goat. When Devin points out the Satanic imagery, Scratch is genuinely surprised, but comes to lean into it.

* ''Film/MaleficentMistressofEvil'' invokes this trope at the end where [[AdaptationalHeroism Maleficent]] turns [[GodSaveUsFromtheQueen Queen Ingrith]] [[KarmicTransformation into a goat]] as punishment for her crimes against the fairies after a HumiliationConga.

* ''Videogame/CultOfTheLamb'' combines this with SweetSheep in the protagonist, who is an adorable lamb that serves as the apostle of a dark god and the head of a cult. While the character is stated to be a sheep, he still has tiny horn nubs on his head for the connotations to goats.

* The main antagonist of ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' is [[BigBad The Devil himself]]. While already having a goat like appearance, during the first phase of his boss fight. One of his attacks is having his face morph into a goat head (complete with rectangular-shaped pupils) and his hands turn into hooves. Even his EvilLaugh sounds like goat bleats during that attack.
* In ''VideoGame/DeathRoadToCanada'', a goat may appear at trader camps. You can milk it for food, but you'll get hurt, or you can recruit it to your team if you have room (the goat won't join if your team is full, not even to replace an existing party member like other recruitable characters). The goat always has the lowest loyalty, making for a poor choice of pet.

* In ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'', the [[FinalBoss Icon of Sin]] is a goat-headed giant the size of a skyscraper, and who [[RealityWarper distorts spacetime]] with its mere presence. One [[EncyclopediaExposita Codex]] entry states that if it is not put down, it would spawn a black hole that would drag the entire universe down into Hell.

* ''VideoGame/DuneII'': House Harkonnen has a red ram emblem instead of a blue griffin in the [[Literature/{{Dune}} original novels]]. Though they were quite power-hungry and vicious in the novel, the games level them up into AlwaysChaoticEvil who like to backstab and their superweapon is a nuke.

* In ''VideoGame/QuestForTheShavenYakStarringRenHoekAndStimpy'', mountain goats serve as enemies in [[DeathMountain The Perilous Mt. Hoek]]. They charge at either Ren or Stimpy if they get too close to them.
* William the Kid, the main villain of the first ''VideoGame/SPYFox'' game, is an anthropomorphic goat. He is a CorruptCorporateExecutive who kidnaps cows so he can rule the dairy world with goat milk.
* This is averted in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''. The rulers of the monsters, Toriel and Asgore, are goat like creatures called "boss monsters", but they’re actually very friendly towards their people and are not truly evil. [[spoiler: Even after the game’s BigBad reveals himself to be their son Asriel, he isn’t really that evil either.]]

* ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'': One of the lesser demons Heavy Warrior cuts through has the head of a goat.

* ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'':

[[caption-width-right:330: "Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a [[ManOfWealthAndTaste goat of wealth and taste]]."]]

*** Arimaspi, the monster responsible for stealing the Idol of Boreas and thus causing the collapse of Griffonstone in is a [[{{Cyclops}} cyclopean]], apelike being with the horns, legs and eye of a goat.

* The ''Manga/DragonBallSuper'' manga-only villain Moro is an EvilSorceror who closely resembles a goat and drains all life from entire planets.

* ''VideoGame/DiabloII'' has Goatmen, poleaxe-wielding enemies that have the heads and legs of goats and the torsos of men, who appear in Acts 1 and 2. They return as a major enemy type in ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'', where they're called Khazra and are revealed to not be demons at all, but humans corrupted by the Vizjerei who occasionally throw in with true demons.

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* ''[[Film/TheDayOfTheBeast The Day of the Beast]]'': When the main characters summon Satan in order to discover where TheAntiChrist will be born, a large black goat appears and stands up on its hind legs before snarling showing off sharp pointy teeth. During the climax, the Devil appears in a more HumanoidAbomination version of the Gruesome Goat, as a tall, slender satyr with a monstrous, elongated goat head.

* ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'':
** During the aptly-named Katze Plains Massacre, Ainz' Dark Young spell (a ShoutOut to Lovecraft's Shub-Niggurath) summons colossal goat-footed {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that sound like regular goats, which only makes them seem all the more alien and wrong as they stomp on tens of thousands of people with utter impunity. Ainz then rides one of them and forces his "allied" army to acclaim him.
** The light novel goes into further detail, noting that one soldier was left with such tremendous mental scarring that whenever he hears a goat bleating, he goes into a fugue state where he snaps to attention and starts screaming "ALL HAIL AINZ OOAL GOWN!" as he cries and pisses himself. Not one of his squadmates mocks him for it, as they were there too.
** Ainz' former guildmate Ulbert Alain Odle (also know as World Destruction and Demon of Great Disaster, and was an ''even stronger'' mage than Ainz) had the form of a goat-headed man. From Ainz' memories and the personality of his custom-designed NPC Demiurge, it's clear he had a serious edgelord problem.

* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'' has an aversion in the form of Morgott the Omen-King, an honorable and decent ruler if flawed and stubborn...however, there is a very straight portrayal of this trope in his twin brother Mohg, who is depicted along the lines of medieval depictions of Satan: horned, winged, clad in black and red, many sharp teeth, and associated with corruption, vice and bloodshed.

** This god is also represented on the banner of the Brave Companions, a PsychoForHire sellsword company led by Vargo Hoat, a Qohorik sellsword. They RapePillageAndBurn like it's going out of style.

** This god is also represented on the banner of the BraveCompanions, a PsychoForHire sellsword company led by the Qohorik, Vargo Hoat. They RapePillageAndBurn like it's going out of style.

* In ''The Lion's Cavalcade'' by Alan Aldridge and Harry Wilcock, King Leonis's astrologer is a goat named Capricornus who states "the horns of the Devil come out of my head/Abraca dabraca dabraca DEAD".