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* The main antagonist of ''VideoGame/Cuphead'' is well [[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.

*** The aforementioned Grogar makes an appearance as the BigBad of Season 9, complete with a crystal ball resembling a goat's eye, and is portrayed as so powerful even some of the show's previous {{Big Bad}}s are intimidated by him. [[spoiler:He is later revealed to be the aforementioned Discord in disguise.]]

* In the 1943 [[WarTimeCartoon WWII era cartoon]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIlLEcjxv7w "Scrap Happy Daffy"]] starring WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck. Hitler is enraged and orders the Nazis to send a torpedo to the U.S. and "Destroy the scrap pile!" that Daffy is guarding. The torpedo turns out to have a Nazi Goat [[ExtremeOmniGoat who eats scrap metal]] and attacks Daffy throughout the cartoon.

Compare BrutishBulls for other negative portrayals of bovids, and ExtremeOmniGoat for the stereotype of goats as {{Extreme Omnivore}}s. For goat- or ram-like humanoids, see FaunsAndSatyrs, who may be portrayed as benign or as aggressive and demonic. Contrast SweetSheep.

There's something a little unsettling about fully-grown goats and sheep. Their long curved horns remind us of [[BigRedDevil typical portrayals]] of {{Satan}}. Their [[GoodEyesEvilEyes horizontal pupils]] are a good way to invoke the UncannyValley. The tuft of hair on a goat's chin resembles a BeardOfEvil. For this reason, it is common to portray goats and rams as scary, aggressive, or monstrous in fiction.

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 and hooves as well as goatees as part of their demonic appearance.

** A number of demons, including schirs (demons born from the souls of mortals who engaged in violent, spiteful crimes) and brimoraks (born from mortals who engaged in violent arson), have the heads and hooves of goats. This is subverted through the ez-azaels, celestial beings created when a schir is used a very literal scapegoat to atone a mortal population's sins; the schir usually dies, but sometimes is itself cleansed of its demonic nature and changed into a creature of good.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': The villain's henchmen are large and intimidating-looking rams with large curved horns and rectangular pupils. [[spoiler:Despite the villain being a sheep herself, she is not this trope, but rather a subversion of SweetSheep.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/GreenEggsAndHam2019'': In [[AdaptationalVillainy contrast to his benign]] [[Literature/GreenEggsAndHam book counterpart]], the Goat is a ruthless and persistent bounty hunter who will do anything, including [[PersonOfMassDestruction destroy buildings and other structures]], to get his target, to the point that even the cheerful and upbeat Sam-I-Am is terrified of him. His leitmotif consists of [[RottenRockAndRoll heavy metal music]] and, when angry, his pupils turn from [[GoodEyesEvilEyes round and human-like to horizontal and more anatomically correct]].

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* ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'': The villain's henchmen are large and intimidating-looking rams with large curved horns and rectangular pupils. [[spoiler:Despite the villain being a sheep herself, she is not this trope, but rather a subversion of SweetSheep.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': Episode 10 of Season 4 has mountain goats who were mutated by toxic waste, giving them bat wings, fangs, fire breath, and now ''[[BizarreAlienReproduction lay eggs]]'' instead of giving birth through mammalian reproduction. The latter trait is lampshaded.

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* The Creator/DrSeuss book "I Can Read With my Eyes Shut!" at one point features a disturbing humanoid goat-like creature with glaring yellow eyes known simply as "Foo-Foo the Snoo".

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* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': A SerialKiller who preys on the children of wealthy families that Bullock investigated was known as the Spirit of the Goat. The killer even wore a goat mask. [[spoiler:However, the men wielding the mask were actually themselves victims who were brainwashed with hypnotic suggestions by a PsychoPsychologist.]]

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* The Warhammer beastmen were largely inspired by the Broo from ''TabletopGame/RuneQuest'', which are similar yet even worse.

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* The {{Wendigo}} in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' is a humanoid monster with goat-like head and horns, rumored to be a poor soul searching for something he lost [[WasOnceAMan turned into a monster]] out of desperation.

* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': A SerialKiller who preys on the children of wealthy families that Bullock investigated was known as the Spirit of the Goat. The killer even wore a goat mask.

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* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': A SerialKiller who preys on the children of wealthy families that Bullock investigated was known as the Spirit of the Goat. The killer even wore a goat mask.

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There's something a little unsettling about fully-grown goats and sheep. Their long curved horns remind us of [[BigRedDevil typical portrayals]] of {{Satan}}. Their [[GoodEyesEvilEyes horizontal pupils]] are a good way to invoke the UncannyValley. For this reason, it is common to portray goats and rams as scary, aggressive, or monstrous in fiction.

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 and hooves as part of their demonic appearance.

* ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'':
** During the Egg of the Perfect World arc, a depraved sex cult led by a man wearing a goat-head mask turns into [[https://berserk.fandom.com/wiki/Great_Goat an actual goat-man]] (with a snake for a penis) when the God Hand starts influencing the world. It can jump far longer than a creature its size should be able to and is obsessed with raping Casca, and is decapitated after a messy battle where half its face gets blown off.
** An early chapter features a very quick appearance by a mercenary company called the Black Rams, who are immediately curbstomped by the Blue Whales mercenaries.

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* Chirin, the protagonist of ''Anime/RingingBell'', starts out as a [[SweetSheep sweet and innocent little lamb]], but after his mother dies and he receives training from the sinister wolf, he grows up to be a terrifying horned creature that the narration states to be "more wolf than ram".
* One scene in ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro'' has the four year-old Mei trying to deliver an ear of corn to the hospital. At one point, she is harassed by a goat that tries to eat her corn, which is portrayed as terrifying from her perspective, complete with extra detail on the facial features.
* The villain's henchmen in ''{{Disney/Zootopia}}'' consist of large and intimidating-looking rams with large curved horns and rectangular pupils. [[spoiler:Despite the villain being a sheep herself, she is not this trope, but rather a subversion of SweetSheep.]]

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* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': The most common type of the AlwaysChaoticEvil and civilization-hating beastmen have goat heads, called Gors. Beastmen use the number and size of their horns as status symbols, to the point where those with small or even no horns are looked down on and allowed to serve as CannonFodder at best.
* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' supplement ''Dreamlands'', adventure "Season of the Witch". The witch Hester Payne has a familiar named Specter who's the size of a human being and looks like a satyr (goat/human hybrid). Specter assists Hester in her evil plot to perform a HumanSacrifice of Eric Watson and Susan Mason in order to bring Hester back from the Dreamlands.

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* House Harkonnen of ''VideoGame/DuneII'' 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.

* Josh from ''Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon'' found a goat-based ''ComicStrip/{{Pluggers}}'' strip extremely off-putting; from the post titled "Behold Plug-Niggurath, goat with a thousand puns!":
-->''Dum de doo, let's see what folksy bit of lower-middle-class reactionary agitprop Pluggers has for us today AAAHHH TERRIFYING DEMON GOAT FROM THE PIT OF HELL ITSELF! All apologies to faithful reader True Fable and other known goat-a-philes, but this fellow looks a little bit too much like Baphomet for my taste. I believe that's actually a mummified goat head that "Bernie Lange" wears as a mask for human sacrifices.''

* In [[AdaptationalVillainy contrast to his benign]] [[Literature/GreenEggsAndHam book counterpart]], the Goat from Netflix's ''WesternAnimation/GreenEggsAndHam2019'' is a ruthless and persistent bounty hunter who will do anything, including [[PersonOfMassDestruction destroy buildings and other structures]], to get his target, to the point where even the cheerful and upbeat Sam-I-Am is terrified of him. His leitmotif consists of [[RottenRockAndRoll heavy metal music]], and when angry, his pupils turn from [[GoodEyesEvilEyes round and human-like to horizontal and more anatomically correct]].
* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'': Two of [[BrutishBulls Taurus Bulba]]'s henchmen, Hammerhead and Mouth, are a goat and a ram, respectively. They are ruthless crooks who kill the scientist Professor Waddlemeyer and kidnap his granddaughter Gosalyn.

There's something a little unsettling about fully-grown goats and sheep. Their long curved horns remind us of [[BigRedDevil typical portrayals]] of {{Satan}}. Their [[GoodEyesEvilEyes horizontal pupils]] are a good way to invoke the UncannyValley. For this reason, it is common to portray them as scary, aggressive, or monstrous in fiction.