They wooly love each other.
"And he will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left."
—Matthew 25:33, The Bible (King James Version)
This sub-index of Mammal Tropes is all about the various types of caprids. The most common ones being sheep and goats.
Definitely for those with a bleating heart.
Not to be confused with Tropes That Go BOOM!, except for Baa-Bomb.
Tropes about caprids:
- Baa-Bomb: Exploding sheep for absurdist comedy.
- Baphomet: A goat-headed demon that is often a stand-in for Satan.
- Big Red Devil: A stereotypical demon that often has the horns of a goat or ram.
- Chupacabra: A cryptid whose name quite literally means "goat-sucker", and often preys on said animal.
- Classical Chimera: A monster that is an amalgamation between a lion, a goat, and a snake.
- Counting Sheep: When a person needs to sleep, they often count the number of sheep that jump over a fence.
- Eastern Zodiac: The caprid is the eighth animal of the zodiac.
- Extreme Omni-Goat: When a goat has an appetite for pretty much everything.
- Fauns and Satyrs: Mystical humanoids that are often half man, and half goat.
- Gruesome Goat: Goats are portrayed as aggressive or demonic creatures. Rams also work considering they are far more hostile than lambs.
- Horn Attack: Many caprids that do have horns will often use them to defend themselves or attack if provoked.
- The Jersey Devil: A cryptid that resembles a draconic goat.
- The Krampus: An Alpine mountain demon frequently associated with Christmas and an Evil Counterpart to Santa Claus. Usually portrayed with goat-like fur, horns, and hooves.
- Mindless Sheep: Sheep are conformists, or used as a metaphor for conformity.
- Super Wool Growth: Fictional sheep regrow their wool unrealistically fast.
- Sweet Sheep: When sheep (especially lambs) are portrayed as loving and cuddly animals that symbolize purity and innocence.
- Use Your Head: Many caprids will often use their own horned heads to knock out their foes.
- Western Zodiac: The first sign is Aries (Ram) and the tenth sign is Capricorn (Goat).
Tropes using caprids as metaphors:
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: When a wicked person deceives others with a friendly façade.
- Black Sheep: A character who sticks out from the rest of their family.
- Black Sheep Hit: When a musician gets new fans because of their one song that sounds nothing like the rest of their music.
- Good Shepherd: A benevolent religious leader with his flock's best interests at heart.
- Dark Shepherd: Also good, but willing to use tough love to punish sin in the flock.
- Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap: Natural things are far more expensive than any artificial duplicates.
- Sacrificial Lamb: When the seriousness of death is shown by the death of a minor character.
- The Scapegoat: Someone is blamed entirely for something gone wrong; the term originated from Biblical times when a literal goat would symbolically take on people's sins and be sacrificed for it.
- Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: When someone is suspected to be malicious even though they seem nice when in reality they are genuinely a nice person.
- Sheep in Wolf's Clothing: When a nice person is transformed into a violent monster, and yet is somehow able to maintain their good will.
- A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Something evil disguised as something innocent.
- White Sheep: A non-evil member of an evil family.
- That just goats to show you, I'm one baaaah dude. It's been shear pleasure here, but I'm going to take it on the lamb and just bleat it. Be seeing ewe! — Punny Bones
