History Main / SolidGoldPoop

* [[CompletionMockery Your reward for collecting all 900 Korok seeds]] in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild''? Hetsu's Gift, a coiled piece of golden... something, that the game's description says "smells pretty bad". The creators eventually came forward and stated that all the "seeds" are in fact, Korok poop.

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'' features Rosa/Rose, an elf-maiden who cries rubies as tears. [[spoiler:She's killed by a group of humans who hunt her for her ability. Her death is the BigBad's StartOfDarkness.]]

* In the ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' minigame/homage "Zombiequarium," the zombies defecate sunlight, which works as the game's [[YouRequireMoreVespeneGas resources]].

* ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII'': Malady, the powerful [[NonHumanHumanoidHybrid half-demon]] BigGood of the game, sometimes vomits up liquid [[{{Mana}} Source]] after using her strongest abilities. The player characters can then absorb it.
* ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' allows you to play a [[EatDirtCheap Lithoid]] Species, which eat Minerals instead of food. Some Lithoid species actually shed Rare Crystals (used in cutting edge electronics and advanced materials] scales, excrete Volatile Motes (often used for their being highly energetic, so they can be used as [[StuffBlowingUp High Explosives]] or in alloy manufactoring), or produce Exotic Gases (used for a variety of purposes in research and chemistry). Deviating from the trend, once they have the technology to actually use their body waste for industrial/military purposes, they treat it as just as much a Strategic Resources as any other species.
* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Melusine's]] skin, claws, and tears all serve as powerful mana resources, and she actually paid to have the [[CoolAirship Storm Border]] remodeled for her [[LimitBreak Noble Phantasm]] by selling them to Da Vinci.
* Gold is ''the'' most prevalent color/substance in ''VideoGame/EldenRing'', and of the many, ''many'' items you can collect, one of them is Gold-Tinged Excrement. It's described as a highly stable substance; it doesn't dry out, nor does it ever lose its warmth or scent -- because gold, within this setting, is the color of order and permanence. "For better or for worse, it remains as it is." As such, it is used in the crafting of the [[DungFu most fetid weapons]], the use of which might poison ''yourself'' (there are some builds that actually use this to their advantage).

* Chicken eggs comes out of the hen's cloaca, which is where everything a chicken excretes comes from. And if they're unfertilised, as is the case for most eggs on the market, they can't hatch and thus are useless from the hen's perspective (expect maybe as emergency food).

-->'''The Collector:''' Pig shit. The lights, the machines, the vehicles all run on a high powered gas called methane. Methane comes from pig shit.

* Gold is ''the'' most prevalent color/substance in ''VideoGame/EldenRing'', and of the many, ''many'' items you can collect, one of them is Gold-Tinged Excrement. It's described as a highly stable substance; it doesn't dry out, nor does it ever lose its warmth or scent -- because gold, within this setting, is the color of order and permanence. "For better or for worse, it remains as it is." As such, it is used in the crafting of the [[DungFu most fetid weapons]], the use of which might poison ''yourself'' (but there are builds that actually use this to their advantage).

* ''VideoGame/CultOfTheLamb'': The "Sins of the Flesh" update added new types of poop produced by your cultists. These include literal gold poop that drops coins as well as fertilizer.

* In ''[[Literature/TheShipWho The Ship Avenged]]'', Sainians produce "mouth rubies" that humans rebrand into "crown rubies". The result of a socially embarassing gastic disorder that they hate to admit to, they're both amused and disgusted that humans so value what they regard as solidified drool. The rubies are almost always quite small, but Joat's tasked with moving some enormous ones and is told "Everything has its price."

* The confectioner's glaze coating your Junior Mints is a mixture of alcohol and shellac. What's shellac? The excretion of the female lac bug (a "[[IncrediblyLamePun she-lac]]," if you will).

** A later commercial features a dragon pooping literal gold.

* In ''Literature/TheShipWho The Ship Avenged]]'', Sainians produce "mouth rubies" that humans rebrand into "crown rubies". The result of a socially embarassing gastic disorder that they hate to admit to, they're both amused and disgusted that humans so value what they regard as solidified drool. The rubies are almost always quite small, but Joat's tasked with moving some enormous ones and is told "Everything has its price."

* One issue of Mexican comic strip ''Franchise/ElSantos'' had the main character entering a diamond mine, where he finds that diamonds are actually hardened bat poop. (Yes, it's [[GrossoutShow that kind]] [[WidgetSeries of comic]]).

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* ''WebOriginal/LoomingGaia'': Cecaelia expel cecaelia oil from their cloacas, which is rather valuable as it can be used as waterproof ink, alchemy ingredient, specialized fuel, and even a fancy sauce.

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1330 SCP-1330]] is a [[AlternateUniverse multi-universal]] garbage dump. One object found is a toilet bowl full of unpolished diamonds.

* The Website/SCPFoundation has an SCP that poops diamonds.
** To be a little more specific, at least one SCP is a barn owl which produces rare metals in its castings [[note]]owls puke up the parts of an animal they can't digest, like bones and skin[[/note]] depending on what its latest meal was.

* The final "boss" of the first ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' has Wario going after a treasure, which is revealed to be this.

* In ''LightNovel/KyoKaraMaoh'', Wolfram is seen painting with a foul-smelling paint made from the excrement of Bear-Bees. He doesn't enjoy the smell (even wearing a nose plug), but uses it because it's supposedly the finest kind of paint money can buy in his world.

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': Kirito and Lizbeth go after a crystal dragon (which is not [[CrystalDragonJesus Jesus]]) in order to obtain a rare metal ore to forge Kirito's new sword. Turns out the dragon eats crystals, so the ore is simply a...recycled by-product...of its digestive processes. Lizbeth reacts accordingly.

* ''VideoGame/ArkSurvivalEvolved'' has dung beetles, which process the obvious input into more valuable fertilizer and oil for gardening and crafting respectively. But the true prize goes to the ''Achatina'', a giant snail that poops ''cementing paste''.

** However, with a little modding you can make poultry (or any animal) lay whatever you want. Like bars of steel, gold, [[FantasyMetals adamantine]], or [[{{Unobtainium}} slade]].

* The fish in ''VideoGame/{{Insaniquarium}}'' defecate coins, stars, and even ''diamonds'', all worth money.
** Likewise in ''Website/GaiaOnline'''s "Booty Grab".
** And in the ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' minigame/homage "Zombiequarium," the zombies defecate sunlight, which works as the game's [[YouRequireMoreVespeneGas resources]].

* Humorously subverted in a wartime WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes/Merrie Melodies, where the goose that ONCE laid golden eggs is now patriotic and laying something even more valuable to her country: ALUMINUM eggs! Which she donates to the war effort before going back to laying more.

** After Roger [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption fails]] to find [[PunyEarthlings his species's superpower]] in one episode, he poops himself out of shock when he crashes into a power station (trying to see if he could fly, possibly). What comes out is a solid gold turd... encrusted with diamonds. Said turd is found by some random people, where is proves to be an ArtifactOfAttraction with multiple people murdered fighting over it.

** In one episode, there was an fly-like species who traded for food. As the Doctor explained, "they feed off what others leave behind...From their...behind...if you see what I mean. Perfectly natural, they are flies!"