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[[File:Matter Eater Lad.jpg|link=Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|frame|Matter-Eater Lad, the [[Patron Saint]] of this trope.]]
{{quote|''"If it looks good, eat it. And it all looks good to me."''
|'''Andrew''', ''Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern''}}
{{quote|''"I watched Marco eat some of the popcorn. I did as he did... The texture was rough and strange. And the flavor! It reminded me of a food called pizza. But there was just a hint of cigarette butts, which I also enjoy. Although Prince Jake had told me never to eat cigarette butts again. They are bad for you."''
▲{{quote|''"If it looks good, eat it. And it all looks good to me."''|'''Andrew''', ''Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern''}}
|'''Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill''', ''[[Animorphs]]'' #8}}
▲{{quote|''"I watched Marco eat some of the popcorn. I did as he did... The texture was rough and strange. And the flavor! It reminded me of a food called pizza. But there was just a hint of cigarette butts, which I also enjoy. Although Prince Jake had told me never to eat cigarette butts again. They are bad for you."''|'''Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill''', ''[[Animorphs]]'' #8}}
Sometimes a [[Big Eater]], except that the Big Eater tends to have some standards of cuisine. The Extreme Omnivore will pretty much eat ''anything'' out of hunger or curiosity, so long as it looks like food. And sometimes when it [[Masochist's Meal|clearly doesn't]]. They don't fear the [[Lethal Chef]], and you will never hear them ask "[[I Ate What?]]".
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Compare [[Paste Eater]]. [[Extreme Omni Goat]] is a subtrope where this trope applies to goats.
{{examples}}
▲== [[Anime&Manga]] ==
* Orihime Inoue of ''[[Bleach]]'' is a combination of this trope and [[Cordon Bleugh Chef]]. She's well-known for creating horrible combinations of food (usually involving red bean paste), and loves them. Most characters get sick just hearing about it, however a couple of people (who aren't human) appreciate her cooking.
** This is actually [[Never Live It Down|exaggerated]]: while Orihime's tastes are weird according to others, she can also cook normally and likes more average meals like cheese and butter. In the X-Cution arc she actually works part time in a bakery, and so far the pastries and bread-based meals she's learned to make are fine; also, she's seen pestering Riruka for...something as mundane as donuts.
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* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'''s Gluttony can (and will) eat anything. ''Anything''. Live people and scenery included. Having acid for saliva certainly helps.
** In the manga when they are {{spoiler|trapped inside Gluttony}}, Ed seems pretty comfortable with eating boots to survive (probably as a result of his foraging on the island Izumi left him and Al on). Ling eats one too, though he's less pleased about it.
* Guu from ''[[
* Crunch in ''[[Mighty Orbots]]'' is an extreme omnivore robot by design, as his main function is the team's power source. He can convert anything he eats into energy to use in the team's [[Combining Mecha|united form]].
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* Gourry Gabriev from ''[[The Slayers]]'' is sometimes shown as an Extreme Omnivore. For example, when a crooked cook serves fake, unpalatable Dragon Cuisine to the party, he is the only one who does not feel anything wrong. But subverted in the first season, when he refuses to eat fish guts.
* Simon from ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' won't eat anything in sight, but he's able to eat [[Lethal Chef|Nia's HORRID cooking]] and enjoy it. It's assumed Nia herself eats this too.
* Similarly, the title character of ''[[
* In the manga ''Toto'' (not to be confused with its successor ''Toto! The Wonderful Adventure'') by Yuuko Osada, the titular Toto is a dog/dragon that becomes the main hero's left arm. Its power? Devouring ''anything'' and reproducing it. Eating a squad's worth of machine gun and becoming a 10-barrel version of all those machine guns combined? Check. Eating a panzer armor to become a big slab of steel shield? Check. Eating an entire theme park to use anything from go-karts to roller coasters as a weapon? Check too. And oh, it once ate a [[BFS]]; carnage ensues.
* Taro (and his family) from the manga ''[[Yamada Taro Monogatari]]'', due to being [[Perpetual Poverty|exceedingly poor and half-starving most of the time]], is capable of digesting pretty much ANYTHING without trouble. Including a [[Mushroom Samba|whole bag of narcotics]] that he mistakes as flour.
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* Syn Shenron from [[Dragon Ball GT]] consumes the seven Dragon Balls to gain the power of the previously defeated Shadow Dragons, becoming Omega Shenron. Later when Syn attempts to do so again, Goku decides to eat the Four Star Ball (his grandfather's keepsake) to prevent Omega from reaching full power and to keep Nouva Shenron from being corrupted. While Goku's attempt is more painful, he was successful in what he planned.
* The eponymous ''[[Toriko]]'' graduates to this in the "Gourmet Casino" arc. With the help of Komatsu's cooking skills {{spoiler|and Coco's [[Batman Gambit]]}}, Toriko is able to eat ''explosive and poisonous'' ingredients. When Livebearer taunts him for eating the equivalent of dynamite, Toriko retorts that there is no such thing as a "miss" ingredient—to him, all ingredients are blessings.
* Dead Master in ''[[
* Mehitak, one of the five Nodos in ''[[Heroic Age]]'' may avert the LETTER of this trope, but embodies the spirit of it to a degree only surpassed by Matter Eater Lad himself. Specifically, his Tribe, the Poros, don't eat anything living - which includes fruits and vegetables. Instead, they can - and will - eat any dead matter. Including metal. At one point, he eats a plate of bulletproof superalloy from a pile of [[Humongous Mecha]] spare parts and comments that it is 'a bit bitter'. He still decided to have another one, though, much to the consternation of the [[Humongous Mecha]]'s OWNER.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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** Also his daughter Gali/Galacta; she lives on Earth, tries to let the locals in peace, and eats alien invaders and bioweapons. It takes all her willpower to NOT eat the yummy Earth. {{spoiler|And it has gotten even worse since she became pregnant.}}
** If you consider that Galactus eats everything on the planet, he's got a pretty big range, too (although he probably processes those things along the same lines as we would with seasonings). He just does it in fewer bites.
* Pig Iron, [[The Big Guy]] of ''[[Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew]]'' is a [[Big Eater]] who is always hungry, but being literally made of iron, he can eat anything.
* In the fanfic ''[[Twila the Girl Who Waz In Luv With A Vampyre]]'', the protagonists eat Bella's '''bed''' after they kill her "so there would be no evidenze (lol geddit like [[Evanescence|evinezenze]].)"▼
* In several ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' fanfics, Doc Boy from ''Garfield'' would often show up or be mentioned. In these fics, he's been known to eat
* In perhaps one of the only non-[[Just Eat Him|vore]] erotic applications of this trope, Ronan in ''[[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]]'' eats Atni's panties just before having sex with her. While she's still wearing them. [[Up to Eleven|Then, post-coitus, she eats her glasses...]]▼
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* The Hive in ''[[Tour of the Merrimack]]'' is a [[Horde of Alien Locusts]] that will eat anything organic. ''Anything''. An attempt to bomb them fails when they take the bomb apart to eat the fuse.
* The creature in ''[[The Clone]]''. Humans and animals are absorbed and converted, as are certain types of fabrics, but it also likes rubber and concrete - car tires, shoe soles and parts of buildings. When it comes to clothing, the "clone" is a picky eater, though; it'll eagerly convert nylon but cotton is rejected and [[Empty Piles of Clothing|left behind]] for some reason. It even resorts to cannibalizing itself when its food supply starts to dwindle, {{spoiler|which ends up killing it}}.
* In several of [[Diane Duane]]'s ''[[Star Trek]]'' novels, Lieutenant Naraht's silicon-based metabolism and consequent ability to eat rock becomes a plot point. (He's the first Horta to go through Star Fleet Academy. Hyperneutronium, incidentally, is so dense that after eating through a wall composed of it, he can't move for several minutes.)
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** Also seen in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IgF6_jVaj8 this] video featuring a prototype of Cookie.
** Highlights among the things Cookie Monster has eaten over the years include mutiple cars, big chunks of Seasame Street itself, and ''the friggin' moon!''
* Muppet monsters in general are
** And of course, Animal would be a much better drummer if he just stopped eating his equipment...
* Joey on ''[[Friends]]'', known for his [[Big Eater|voracious appetite]], is effectively a walking garbage disposal. In one episode he catches Chandler and Rachel eating a cheesecake that fell on the hallway - and, without missing a beat, takes a spoon out of his coat pocket and joins in. Another episode has Rachel accidentally putting meat in a traditional English trifle. The others pretend to like it so as not to hurt her feelings, but Joey actually does - so much so that he eats not only his but that which the others had not eaten!
{{quote|"What's there not to like? Custard? Good. Jello? Good. Meat? ''Good!''"}}
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* "The Human Dustbin" from ''[[Look Around You]]'' series 2.
* In the ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'' episode "Who Pooped The Bed?", a forensic analyst ([[Hey, It's That Guy!|played by]] [[Dollhouse|Fran Kranz]]) dissects one of the poops in their quest to find out the episode's [[Driving Question]]. He determines that whoever did it was eating newspaper, as well as pieces of a credit card. It turns out that that still doesn't narrow it down from Frank and Charlie.
* Vyvyan in ''[[The Young Ones]]''
{{quote|'''Television Inspector:''' Aha! The old "eat the telly" trick!
'''Vyvyan (electric cord hanging from mouth):''' It's a toaster! }}
* Part of the mission of the chefs of [[Future Food]] is encouraging people to expand their definitions of what is edible.
* In the ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' sketch "The First Man to Jump the Channel", the titular character, played by Terry Jones, also intends to be "the first man ever to eat an entire Anglican cathedral". (He fails.)
* ''[[iCarly]]'': Sam Puckett
* ''[[
* More than one death in ''[[1000 Ways to Die]]'' involves someone eating something they shouldn't and dying as a result. I.e, there's the French nobleman in ''Bank Ruptured'' who has ''[[wikipedia:Pica (disorder)|pica]]'' and eats metal regularly, which cuts the veins and arteries in his stomach and ends up killing him.
▲== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
▲* In the fanfic [[Twila the Girl Who Waz In Luv With A Vampyre]], the protagonists eat Bella's '''bed''' after they kill her "so there would be no evidenze (lol geddit like [[Evanescence|evinezenze]].)"
▲* In several ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' fanfics, Doc Boy from ''Garfield'' would often show up or be mentioned. In these fics, he's been known to eat ANYTHING, [[I'm a Humanitarian|including people]].
▲* In perhaps one of the only non-[[Just Eat Him|vore]] erotic applications of this trope, Ronan in ''[[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]]'' eats Atni's panties just before having sex with her. While she's still wearing them. [[Up to Eleven|Then, post-coitus, she eats her glasses...]]
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The Tyranids from ''[[Warhammer
** Orks get a special mention for the sheer robustness of their physiology. For example, one "sport" Orks engage in is a face-eating contest, where an Ork and a face-eater Squig try to see who can eat the other's head first. Also, Ork Fighta-Bommas include fuel lines routed through the cockpit, in case the pilot gets thirsty.
** [[Space Marine]]s are capable of eating pretty much anything, since their [[Bio Augmentation]] gave them a 'pre-stomach' organ called the Preomnor which neutralizes anything indigestible or poisonous to them before it enters the stomach. This can also be tactically beneficial, as other organs allow their taste to be strong enough to notice specific chemicals, allow them to potentially track targets by tasting an area. Their bones are also extremely strong, because yet another organ allows them to digest ceramic-based chemicals put into their diet to toughen them.
* The Ogres from ''[[Warhammer Fantasy]]'' are an entire race of [[Big Eater]]/Extreme Omnivore. Their whole society revolves around eating, their magic is practiced by Butchers who devour meat, rocks, or other objects to cast spells, and their god is called The Great Maw. A section in their army book involves someone autopsying one and finding fourteen kilograms of raw meat, a whole horse skeleton, rocks, bones, clothes, a sword, and a pistol, which was the cause of death (it went off when the Ogre swallowed the arm holding it, and shot into the base of the Ogre's brain). Gnoblars (small goblin-like creatures) are virtually the only thing they ''don't'' think are good for eating—they use them as pets, servants, and cannon fodder (sometimes literally).
* In ''[[Dungeons
** Also, dragons are stated to be able to eat and digest just about anything, including dirt and rocks.
** D&D dragons can eat any thing but prefer anything that can be affected by their breath weapon (makes it easier to digest)
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* In ''[[Paranoia]]'', Matter Eater mutants can eat anything, while those with Toxic Metabolism can eat poison and exude it through their skin. (This being ''Paranoia'', sometimes these powers don't work right. Ow.)
* The Epic Stamina knack "Inner Furnace" from ''[[Scion]]'' grants you the ability to eat any organic object without penalty and drink any quality of water. Its upgraded version, "Devourer", takes away the "organic" and "water" requirements - now you can subsist on ''anything''.
* ''[[
* ''[[Champions]]'' adventure "Bad Medicine for Dr. Drugs''. The teen superhero "The Masked Avenger" had the ability to bite through and eat just about anything, including non-living material and plants. It didn't say whether he could use it to eat living animal flesh.
* ''[[Shadowrun]]''. The Awakened creature called the Juggernaut could eat plants, animals, rocks, scrap metal, etc.
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Yeah he's mad; he's [[The Legion of Super Heroes|Matter-Eater Lad]]
Yeah he's mad; he's Matter-Eater Lad
First he started on furniture
Then he moved on to parking lots
Now he's eating [[Place Worse Than Death|Ansonia]]
Now he's eating [[Galactic Conqueror|Andromeda]] }}
** Frontman Robert Pollard—former fifth-grade school teacher—referred to his songwriting style as "[[Nursery Rhyme|nursery rhymes]] for grown-ups." Prolific? Even the most obsessive fans might tremble, faced with [[Attention Deficit Creator Disorder|the enormity]] (and complexity!) of the sprawling discographies of Pollard's erstwhile band, solo recordings and uncountable side-projects.
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* Yuyuko Saigyouji of the ''[[Touhou]]'' series, according to fanon and [[Memetic Mutation]], will eat anything. And any''one''. Poor Mystia...
** Yoshika Miyako's ability is explicitly to "eat anything and everything". She makes use of it in combat by eating spirits to regenerate health.
** Yuuma Toutetsu one-ups Yoshika in this department with her ability to absorb anything (by swallowing), including her opponents' attacks, making her [[Nigh Invulnerability|effectively unbeatable]]. Her only known weakness is Flandre Scarlet's ability to destroy anything.
* The Green Tentacle from ''[[Maniac Mansion]]'' will eat good food, food gone bad, or anything that just ''looks'' like food - in fact, his favorite dish is plastic ''shaped'' like food.
* Dimitri in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages|The Legend of Zelda Oracle Games]]'' will eat any enemies Link comes across while being ridden. Funnily enough, in both games ''he'' is nearly eaten before Link intereferes, in ''Seasons'' by some Moblins and in ''Ages'' by some Tokay. The Tokay themselves gladly ask for some Ember Seeds to eat in place of Dimitri, though they don't actually end up liking them so much.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda|The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild]]'', the Gorons are a race that eat rocks and minerals; the stores Link can shop at are there for tourists.
* Your BOY in ''[[Noby Noby Boy]]'' can eat anything and anyone. However, he doesn't really digest them, as they come back out in one piece when they're, um, "evacuated".
* In ''[[Persona 4]]'', the main character Souji Seta can check the refrigerator on certain days and eat things that he finds within to increase his courage. These include such delicacies as expired milk, white miso (which used to be red), and his cousin's science experiment, which is a pot of grass. This has become [[Memetic Mutation|a bit of a joke in the Persona 4 fandom]].
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** In Oblivion, this gets even worse. Occasionally whenever you slay a monster and check its corpse, you have a small chance of finding [[Money Spider|a gold piece]] or [[Impossible Item Drop|some other inedible item like a lockpick in their body.]]
* ''[[Monster Hunter]] Tri'' has Deviljho, a dangerous endgame-level monster only encountered in the online mode. It's an Extreme Omnivore not in the "eats cars and lightbulbs" sense so much as apparently having ''no'' standards for what kind of meat it'll eat. On top of being a voracious predator that hunts nonstop due to its extremely high metabolism (to the point of driving other species to extinction, according to the game's description), it's also been observed in actual gameplay to munch on slain or captured members of its ''own species'' as well as its ''own severed tail''.
* ''[[League of Legends]]'' Has Cho'gath, whose level 6 ability allows him to basically eat(or attempt to eat) anything with a health bar,<ref>such as humans, Yordles, [[Telescoping Robot|robots]], [[
** Also Kog'maw, the "Mouth of the Abyss" whose entire skillset, including his auto-attacks, involves spitting digestive fluids at his enemies. The only reason he's even in the League is because he was told it had the finest food Runeterra had to offer. Ironically, he's never actually seen eating anything.
{{quote|'''Kog'maw's Background:''' ''The enchanting colors and aromas of Runeterra intoxicated Kog'Maw, and he explored the fruits of the strange world the only way he knew how: by devouring them. At first he sampled only the wild flora and fauna he happened across. As he traversed the parched Tempest Flats, however, he came upon a tribe of nomads. Seemingly unhampered by conventional rules of physics, Kog'Maw consumed every nomad and any obstacles they put in his way, amounting to many times his own mass and volume.''}}
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* Kingseeker Frampt in ''[[Dark Souls]]'' serves as your [[Vendor Trash]] disposal by eating the equipment and giving you souls in return. He can also break down Titanite material.
* ''[[Raving Rabbids]]'': a couple of minigames in the first one feature Rayman serving up food to a rabbid by drawing it. Foodstuffs produced in this manner range from the relatively normal (bananas, fish, sausages), to the odd (cans of spam...the can is eaten too) to the absurd (baseballs and ''cinderblocks''.) These are all devoured with every indication of satisfaction.
* In ''[[Wario World]]'', the protagonist can collect coins by ''inhaling'' them.
== [[Web Animation]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', one of the incarnations that the ever-evolving alien Aylee has gone through is a flying, fire-breathing, dragon-like Extreme Omnivore. The only thing she ''wouldn't'' eat was tofu.
* ''[[The
* Sergeant Schlock from ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''. Anything goes down the hole, and it won't come back out unless he lets it go. The only exceptions so far were plasma grenade (already primed, so it did go off too quickly to be "defused"), adaptive military-grade [[Nanomachines]] (even then, the second portion was mopped up pretty quickly - Schlock learns) and concentrated solvent (if you count burping toxic vapours as escape).
** And he can share memories with other members of his race by eating parts of them (and vice-versa).
* Not from the comic ''itself'', but Brian Clevinger (author of ''[[8-
* ''[[Girl Genius
{{quote|[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date{{=}}20031031 No bogz] [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date{{=}}20040528 in pie]? Aw.}}
** Moloch von Zinzer probably also qualifies, at least when it [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031126 comes to] [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031128 beverages]. His taste in drinks and associated iron stomach is actually something of a running joke among the fanbase, leading to, among other things, him being pegged as 'most likely to accidently Jaegerize himself'.
* ''[[Homestuck
** He also learns proper human etiquette by [[Instant Expert|eating a book on it]] (though to be fair, he reads each page before eating it).
* Weesh, of the eponymous comic ''[[Weesh]]'', who isn't human.
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'''Boy:''' Blue mayo? ...That's dishwasher soap.
'''Weesh:''' Ah. I wondered why it was under the sink. }}
* Warp-Aci in ''[[DMFA]]'' will "eat" [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1020.php anything smaller than them]... which becomes a real problem if they grow. It helps that they have no actual digestive system - anything they 'eat' is simply teleported somewhere random.
** Also, Abel once ate a pillow. In his defense, he was having a dream about giant marshmallows.
* Tanked from ''[[Bear Nuts]]''. Constantly in such an altered state, he'll (at least try) to eat anything he can fit in his mouth.
* ''[[Freefall]]'' has Sam Starfall, who as a member of scavenger species is [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff300/fv00222.htm apparently] pretty tough in this department. Probably makes up for his general weakness in nearly every other one. Winston doesn't [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff900/fv00853.htm do too bad] for a human.
* ''[[Casey and Andy]]'''s Planet Devourer can eat just about anything...[http://www.galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=312 given enough time].
* According to ''[[Bug
* In ''[[Rusty and Co.
** As long as it's metal, Rusty will want to eat it. At least he (usually) asks first...
** Gelatinous Cube will eat anything organic. The bones just take a little longer.
* ''[[Vexxarr]]'' got the Lattroxx. They eat their enemies (and conversely, will attack anyone edible). And robots (plastic ones, anyway). And each other when disabled — as in, "hospital" and "food factory" are the same term, [[Escape Pod]]s contain [http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate=041217 marinade] for the crewmembers not in the shape to climb out, and normally head to "medical/dinner frigate". It's also their [[Weaksauce Weakness|major weakness]], as some unnaturally energetic food (such as cake) both causes fatal indigestion and is irresistible to them.
== [[Web Original]] ==
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* In the [[Whateley Universe]] Tennyo is a [[Big Eater]], but she's not always picky. In a recent story, some horrific part-Were part-animal part-Mythos monsters invaded the Whateley Academy campus and she ''ate'' them.
** She also eats ectoplasmic monsters called spider-rats that a [[Our Demons Are Different|demon lord]] summons. When the big showdown between her and the demon comes and he summons a bunch of insect-like demon warriors, she somehow ''eats their souls.'' The demon is naturally terrified of her and begs her friend to get her to spare him.
* ''[[SCP Foundation]]'':
**
** SCP-457 is a being of living fire; rather than food, it has to "eat" fuel, like wood, coal, or gasoline. Which the Foundation provides, in moderation, as the more it eats, the stronger, smarter, and more dangerous it becomes.
** SCP-2094 (or "Motormouth", as he calls himself) is a former circus performer who can eat almost anything, but not digest it; his stomach is sort of like a [[Bag of Holding]]. He can eat things larger than himself this way - the largest he's tried it on is a Volkswagon - and can swallow explosives without harming himself. He can even transport a person this way, having done so to help a conscripted SCP to escape the circus, [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished| the reason they ultimately fired him and left him for the Fountation to find.]]
* In episode 8 of ''[[The Gmod Idiot Box]]'', RED Scout eats BLU Scout's Force-A-Nature. After daring BLU Scout to Rage Quit, he gets [[Groin Attack|kicked]], which apparently is enough to set off the gun inside him, sending him flying {{spoiler|into the blades of RED Heavy's flying machine}}.
* The
▲* The youtube sensation of [[EPICMEALTIME]] features a group of drunken Canadians who like to eat heinously fatty and sugary meals of 3,000+ calories!!!
* [[The Cinema Snob]]'s series "Brad Tries", where he eats weird food and drinks sodas which stopped being manufactured years, if not decades, ago.
* Giratina [[Pokémon Heart Gold and Soul Silver|The Second]] deserves a mention in [[The Pokédex Extended Fanon Edition]], where it is stated that Cynthia has discovered the critters will drink anything and everything ranging from water to art paintings and scientific research equipment. At least he's diligent enough to eat at scheduled times, on his desk. Which he then also eats.
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* Broadway on ''[[Gargoyles]]'' once ate the glowing fungus growing on a cave wall when nothing else was available.
** The Archmage ate the Grimotum Achenorum in order to subvert a rule that Avalon has about bringing human magic onto the island.
* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]''
** In the episode ''Crash'', Cyborg (who is a is a [[Big Eater]] to begin with) is infected with a computer virus, making him perceive objects and various people as some of his favorite foods. Normally, Cyborg Mayhem and [[Hilarity Ensues]]. Deconstructed, however, because once the virus is purged and he comes to his sense, he has a ''really'' bad tummy ache as a result.
** 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.
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* 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''.
{{quote|'''Ed:''' [wipes his mouth after eating the bed] That hit the spot!}}
* [[Evil Counterpart|Anti-Wanda]] from ''[[The Fairly
* A [[Running Gag]] in ''[[Drawn Together]]'' involving Toot is her habit of eating literally anything that she can grasp (she is a one-dimensional [[Acceptable Targets|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.
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{{quote|'''Remy:''' What...are you eating?!
'''Emile:''' I don't really know. I think it was some sort of wrapper once. }}
* Played for laughs in one scene in ''[[Harley Quinn]]''. Dr. Psycho and Killer Shark are up against Bane's venom-enhanced henchmen, who wreck their car; the two won't back off, so [[Give Me a Reason| one of the thugs impales one of the car's wheels with a sharpened metal pole, and then takes a bite of the tire]] the way one would eat a skewered cocktail wiener. {{spoiler|Amazingly enough, [[The Stinger]] of the episode shows that Psycho and Shark [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome| managed to fight these guys and ''win'', although the fight itself occurs offscreen]].}}
* Heffer from ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]''.
** Spunky even more so.
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* Buster from ''[[Arthur (animation)|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.
*** ...I don't suppose they do [[
* Beezy and his girlfriend Saffi on ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes|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 Animated 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).
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* Shaggy in ''[[Scooby-Doo (animation)|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 1987|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', such as peanut butter and clams, chocolate fudge with garlic, and strawberry with anchovy sauce.
** And [[James Rolfe]] decided to [[Defictionalization|defictionalize]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120607020846/http://cinemassacre.com/2011/05/10/tmnt-tuesday-pizza-tasting/ those pizzas]... (though he did like "tea and toast" and marshmallow/pepperoni)
* 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|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.
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* The alien race in ''[[Ben 10]]'' referred to as [http://ben10.wikia.com/wiki/Gourmand '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.|Dan Vs]]''. It takes him a while to register that he's eaten something human beings really shouldn't eat.
* [[Captain Caveman]] is a [[Big Eater]] who can eat anything; in one episode, he eats an entire tray of bronto burgers, and ''then'' eats the tray.
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