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{{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 (Literature)|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 [[
In more realistic cases, he spits the bad stuff back out. In less realistic cases, he digests it with few ill consequences.
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Also likely to be [[I'm a Humanitarian|humanitarian]] when the opportunity presents itself.
Please note that instances of someone being forced to eat something disgusting or inappropriate isn't Extreme Omnivorosity. Likewise for [[I Ate What?|unintentional ingestion]]. A true Extreme Omnivore has a long-term ''pattern'' of eating everything knowingly, willingly, and usually cheerfully.
Compare [[Paste Eater]]. [[Extreme Omni Goat]] is a subtrope where this trope applies to goats.
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== [[Anime&Manga]] ==
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* In ''[[The Mask (Film)|The Mask]]'', the titular artifact turns Stanley Ipkiss into a human cartoon. Thus, at the climax, he is able to neutralize a bomb by swallowing it and letting it explode inside him. The only side effects to this are comical distension as it explodes, followed by a fiery belch afterward.
** This exact same gag was done in the pilot episode of ''[[Lois and Clark|Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman]]'', where Superman's debut as a superhero involved ''eating a bomb on a space shuttle''.
** In the animated series, a villain wants to blow up Edge City with a nuclear missile. The Mask covers said missile with bread, sauce and salad, and stands on the place it would hit the ground with his mouth open. Although this time the bomb-eating [[Non
* [[Marx Brothers|Harpo Marx's]] character(s) were frequently like this.
* Bill Murray's character in ''[[Osmosis Jones]]'' contracts a lethal virus by eating a hard-boiled egg he'd dropped on the ground near the monkey cage at a zoo. He arm-wrestles the egg away from a grabby monkey, then heedlessly pops it into his mouth.
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* In [[Tanya Huff]]'s Confederation novels, the Krai are an entire alien race of [[Extreme Omnivore|Extreme Omnivores]]. This comes in handy when they want to impress other alien races by downing whatever local food is offered them, no matter how disgusting.
* The Luggage from [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'' series will eat, quite literally, ''anything'' that gets in its way. This includes people (on many occasions), sharks, legendary grimoires, and even (on one occasion) a demon. This is combined with its [[Hyperspace Arsenal]] capacity to ensure that regardless of what it eats, the next time you open it all you find is your clean laundry. According to Rincewind (its owner) at one point, the only time it ever disliked that it ate was a book of spells - it sulked for three days and then spat it out. The Discworld's swamp dragons, particularly Errol, are also extreme omnivores, although this might be limited to flammables.
*** Errol was described as eating a kettle, a can of lamp fuel, armor polish, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|one of Dibbler's sausages]].
** The Tsimo wrestlers (Parodies of Sumo wrestlers) of the Counterweight Continent also seem to fit. One man was rejected as a Tsimo wrestler when the trainers gave him a meal and he didn't eat the table, too.
* One of the "Utopias" in John T. Sladek's [[Satire|satirical]] short story "Heavens Below: Thirteen Utopias" depicts a family enjoying a picnic at a landfill site, eating the garbage as if it were the most delicious snack food anyone ever tasted.
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* In one of [[Keith Laumer]]'s ''[[Retief (Literature)|Retief]]'' stories, a race of hostile aliens called the Basurans can survive on a diet of raw metals and silicon if necessary, and, having consumed most of their own planet, are looking for new planets to eat. They were bribed into cancelling an invasion by shipping them another planet's garbage as "gourmet food".
* In [[Robert Heinlein]]'s ''The Star Beast'', the title creature (nicknamed "Lummox") could eat just about anything, including concrete, steel, wood, rose bushes, hay and dogs (among other things).
* [[
* Mulch Diggums, a dwarf from the [[Artemis Fowl (Literature)|Artemis Fowl]] books by Eoin Colfer, has a one-way digestive system and travels underground by eating through dirt, rock, etc. and expelling it behind him. That is one thing all dwarves can do slower or faster. Anything found in earth, like beetles, is food for dwarves as well. A large chunk of granite managed to temporarily constipate Mulch, though. Other features of dwarven biology in Colfer's books include, for example, slightly fluorescent saliva that hardens in contact with air, a detachable lower jaw, and the ability to weaponize the built-up air from consuming soil.
* The title character in [[Shel Silverstein]]'s "Hungry Mungry" (in ''Where The Sidewalk Ends'') ends up literally eating everything. [[The End of the World As We Know It|In all of existence]]. [[Fridge Horror|Ending with himself]].
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* All of the ''[[Jackass (TV)|Jackass]]'' team are like this to some extent, although Steve-O and Dave England are perhaps the biggest examples - in particular, the latter ate horse manure in a $200 bet with the Three Six Mafia in ''Jackass: Number Two''.
* "The Human Dustbin" from ''[[Look Around You]]'' series 2.
* In the ''[[Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'' episode "Who Pooped The Bed?", a forensic analyst ([[Hey
* Vyvyan in [[The Young Ones]] in "The Television Inspector", literally ''eats the television'' to hide it from the television inspector:
{{quote| '''Television Inspector:''' Aha! The old "eat the telly" trick!<br />
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* Online game example: Skeiths and Grarrls, two types of virtual pets in ''[[Neopets]]'', can eat any inventory item, not just those designated as food.
* Izen from ''[[Gadget Trial]]'', being a bio-engineered [[Robot Girl]], eats just about anything she can get her hands on. She does have a fondness for dynamite, which, according to her, tastes like bean jelly.
* ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'''s Guardian Force, Eden, allows the Junctioned character to equip the "Devour" ability. If used successfully, the character will rush the enemy... and the scene will change to a [[Relax
* Quina Quen, the Qu that joins the party in ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'', has the "Cook" [[Limit Break|Trance Skill]] which allows it to eat any sufficiently-weakened enemy in order to [[Mega Manning|learn its special skills.]]
** And "Cook" is just an upgraded version of "Eat" [[Ambiguous Gender|her(?)]] normal skill that does the same thing.
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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 (Video Game)|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]], [[Eskimo Land|humans]] [[A Boy and His X|riding]] [[Bigfoot Sasquatch and Yeti|yetis]], [[Mini Mecha|Yordles riding robots]], [[Robot Girl|formerly human robots]], [[Elemental Embodiment|elementals]], [[Living Shadow|shadows]], [[A Load of Bull|minotaurs]], [[Our Liches Are Different|liches]], giant armadillos, anthropomorphic dogs, anthropomorphic crocodiles, [[Our Werewolves Are Different|werewolves]], [[Our Vampires Are Different|Vampires]], [[Vampire Hunter|vampire hunters]], [[Rule of Three|Yordle]] [[Mummy|mummies]], [[Our Ghosts Are Different|wraiths]], [[Gorgeous Gorgon|gorgons]], [[Ninja|human ninjas]], [[Running Gag|Yordle ninjas]], [[An Ice Person|icy]] [[Phoenix|phoenixes]], [[Our Angels Are Different|angels]], [[Fallen Angel|other angels]], other [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]], [[Scary Scarecrows|scarecrows]], [[Big Badass Wolf|wolves]], [[Our Demons Are Different|scary demons]], [[Golem|golems]], [[Humanoid Abomination|scary humanoid demons]], [[When Trees Attack|mobile trees]], [[Our Trolls Are Different|trolls]], [[Our Gargoyles Rock|gargoyles]], [[Our Zombies Are Different|zombies]], [[Running Gag|Yordle]] [[Gadgeteer Genius|inventors]], ''[[Suspiciously Specific Denial|totally]]'' [[Averted Trope|non-]][[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|dwarves]], [[Silicon Based Life|crystalline]] [[Scary Scorpions|scorpions]], [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragons]], [[The Power of Rock|METAL suits of armor]], [[Green
** 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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* ''[[Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'s'' Monster in the Darkness eats pretty much everything, except [[Eats Babies|babies]].
* Sergeant Schlock from ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]''. About the only thing he ''can't'' eat is military-level [[Nanomachines]].
* Not from the comic ''itself'', but Brian Clevinger (author of ''[[
* [[Girl Genius|The Jaegers]] seem to fall under this trope, as illustrated [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050914 here].
{{quote| [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031031 No bogz] [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040528 in pie]? Aw.}}
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** Yet he got pretty ill in ''Total Drama Action'' after eating an entire buffet of foam-core food.
*** He still nethertheless found it delicious
* In ''[[Justice League (Animation)|Justice League]]'', one of John Stewart's fellow Green Lanterns, Kilowog, is shown to apparently be this in a scene where he and Flash were poking around John's apartment. Flash first finds a carton of "[[Bland
* 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 (Animation)|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]] [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 (Animation)|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 (Animation)|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.
** Spike from the same definitely qualifies -- he prefers eating gemstones, but can and often will eat literally anything. Including eating and enjoying said muffins. ''After'' seeing a live earthworm stick its head out of one.
** Don't forget the Parasprites. Twilight tried to stop them from eating all the food by casting a spell to make them stop eating food. They started eating everything else.
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