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  • Not from the comic itself, but Brian Clevinger (author of 8-Bit Theater) regularly makes his newsposts the latest episode of What Did Charlie Eat, starring his Extreme Omnivore cat. At the time of writing, the latest update was "iPhone earplugs".
  • Tanked from Bear Nuts. Constantly in such an altered state, he'll (at least try) to eat anything he can fit in his mouth.
  • Bloody Urban gives us Shannon, whose current canon toll includes sheep, human hearts, corpses, a pizza covered in corpse parts, a whole vending machine full of candy, an Apple iPad and one of his childhood classmates.
  • In Boy and Dog, Rowan eats grass at one point.
  • According to Bug, the typical office worker would eat almost everything.
  • Casey and Andy's Planet Devourer can eat just about anything...given enough time.
  • Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures:
    • Warp-Aci will "eat" 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.
    • Abel once ate a pillow. In his defense, he was having a dream about giant marshmallows.
  • Erma: Rocks, live cats... Pretty much anything can be consumed by Erma.
  • Freefall: Sam Starfall is apparently pretty tough in this department. Probably makes up for his general weakness in nearly every other one (including the fact he's also Extreme Omni-Edible).
  • Girl Genius:
    • Jägers seem to fall under this, as illustrated here.
    • Moloch von Zinzer probably also qualifies, at least when it comes to 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 accidentally Jaegerize himself'.
  • Homestuck:
    • The Wayward Vagabond will eat anything, as long as it's green (or has been green at some point in time). This includes a pumpkin, a potted plant, several pieces of chalk, a mechanical eye, and a chunk of uranium. He also eats the pages of a book on etiquette after reading them.
    • Terezi is a synesthete who smells and tastes colors. Her favorite flavor is bright red. This apparently extends to chalk.
  • Impjak Adventure: At the beginning, Impjak eats the Swedish mosque and his house in one gulp.
  • Kevin & Kell: Although technically a carnivore due to having a mother that is a wolf, Coney Dewclaw does qualify for this trope since her father is a rabbit. And while she absolutely prefers meat, she has been in situations where she needed to consume vegetation in large quantities.
  • The Last Dimension: Philip absentmindedly takes a bite out of fruit growing on a tree on Imash, the alien world he and the other kids landed on, while exploring the forest. Alex slaps it out of his hands and calls him out on just randomly eating things in a place he's never been. They then discover that its flesh and juices act like Hollywood Acid and eat into the floor. Philip is perfectly fine afterwards and even says it tasted good. Alex says Philip has eaten weirder things, including a hunk of solid clay during art class. After this, both Alex and Fai give Philip the sideeye when Philip starts licking his lips around potentially poisonous berries.
  • Nobody Scores!: Jane Doe. Actually played about as realistically as you could expect, for a Negative Continuity Gag A Day strip: she apparently gets her stomach pumped a lot. By age eight, she has had at least fifteen pumpings, the latest (at the time) being a can opener. This didn't stop in childhood either, sometimes propagated by Jane to the rest of the cast. On occasion, it even results in death.
  • Oceanfalls: When Nino wakes up famished and has to wait several minutes for Aria to present the muffins, he starts eating Five's drawing and crayons in desperation. Subverted, as it was just an Imagine Spot. Although... those crayons were starting to look tasty...
    Narration: This situation is not dire enough for crayon consumption. Not yet, you tell yourself.
  • The Order of the Stick: The Monster in the Darkness eats pretty much everything, except babies.
  • Llewellyn in Ozy and Millie, being a dragon, has been known to drink gasoline and lighter fluid, and once claimed to have eaten Joe McCarthy's car. While Aunt Tulip ate an entire bus at the family reunion.
  • Pebble from Pebble and Wren often eats non-food objects. Normally this is OK for him, but he does get sick when he swallows a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figure. He's also eaten mice before, but when he claimed to eat frogs and cats, he was joking.
  • The peeves in The Petri Dish have eaten people, lab equipment, and trash.
  • Poison Ivy Gulch: Played for laughs on 3/30/2022 where Wilbur comes across a display of B. Juliano's Canned Bacon. He eats it, still in the can, and remarks it tastes terrible.
  • 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.
  • Schlock Mercenary:
    • Sergeant Schlock is a carbosilicate amorph, essentially a large blob of nanites that evolved from damaged data-storage systems over millions of years. Among their other abilities, amorphs can digest nearly anything, up to and including concentrated solvent. Amorphs do battle using their immune systems, and Schlock is considered one of the greatest masters of immune system combat, meaning he can eat even things that other amorphs would have trouble with. When a giant carnivorous flower tried to eat him, he forced it to barf him up.
    • Schlock's default combat strategy when he isn't using a plasgun is to swallow his enemies whole, and when he IS using a plasgun, he generally eats the ashes afterwards.
      Tagon: Headcount! There were three goons! Three! Where's the third one?
      Schlock: (raises hand) Yum?
    • The only thing that ever gave Schlock serious trouble was a set of hyper-advanced mil-spec nanobots; he casually spit them out and barely considered the event worth mentioning (and the main reason he said anything at all was someone else overheard him talking to their controlling program), but later nanobots of that same type evolved plasma weaponry and cut themselves out of an anti-nanite cage.
    • He also had trouble understanding why his team, all of whom are omnivores, have to check if something is edible before eating it.
      Schlock: I thought all of us were omnivores.
      Murtaugh: We are, but that just means we can eat lots of different kinds of organic material. We can't eat everything.
      Schlock: I can. What's that make me?
      Ebby: We need a word that means "omnivorous like a forest fire."
      Schlock: When you find that word, I will eat it.
    • Murtaugh eventually names him a "mundivore"—Latin for "world eater."
    • Schlock once ate tissues that tried to plate his insides with aluminum. He described the process as "tingly."
      Murtaugh: Why are you still eating that?
      Schlock: Food that fights back builds character. Also, I like the fizz.
    • When the Toughs finally get around to writing down some real rules and procedures for the company, an entire chapter of the officer manual is dedicated to ways to weaponize Schlock's appetite.
    • By the end of the webcomic, thanks to hijacking some Pa'anuri technology, he graduated to eating living, sociopathic dark matter.
    • Elizabeth, another very large non-human soldier in Schlock's outfit, is described as having "a G-I tract like a municipal water treatment plant" after unintentionally swallowing several volleyballs during a game.
  • In Skin Deep, manticores are capable of this, having among other things magically augmented teeth.
    Ike: Look, I am capable of fixing your keyboard or eating it. Guess which I'm closer to doing?
  • Unity of Skin Horse has been known to eat furniture and poison sufficient to destroy an ecosystem. It's not known whether she has any actual metabolism, being a swarm of nanobots animating a corpse.
  • Sleipnir: Equine Invader from Jupiter: Fenrir is a canid cyborg that is capable of eating just about anything and converting it to biomass, growing and metamorphosing at a rapid rate as a result.
  • 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.
  • In tinyraygun, there's Doppler, a newly hatched alien that responds to having a gun pointed at it by snatching it with its tongue and crunching it down.
  • The Lattroxx from Vexxarr have this as their hat. They eat every race they conquer, robots and each other: In their language, a hospital is the same thing as a food-production facility.
  • Weesh, of the eponymous comic Weesh, who isn't human.
    Weesh: Mm. This blue mayonnaise you've got is delicious.
    Boy: Blue mayo? ...That's dishwasher soap.
    Weesh: Ah. I wondered why it was under the sink.
  • Oliver from Binary Stars regularly chows down on the food of his alien crewmate, which generally does not agree with human physiology. He thinks he's the Can Eat Anything subtype because he only got a mild tummyache once from an Ivvoran smoothie, but it turns out he doesn't remember getting his stomach pumped due to the toxins knocking him out.
  • In Miez, the protagonist Sun is shown to be able to eat absolutely anything whether it is comestible or not, which is particularly evident in the Episode 17 in which she eats for breakfast a bunch of pancakes, the plates, the cutlery and even the table. While this ability is used for comedy, it is also related to the main plot as she is seemingly the only character able to permanently destroy (specifically by eating) the heart of the monsters known as Coriez, therefore preventing them from reappearing in the future.

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