Gonta The world is crawling with humans! Like roaches! We need to destroy as many as we can!!
Played by Shigeru Izumiya 
Pom Poko (1994) · 25 quotes
Pom Poko (1994) · 25 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Pom Poko (1994): in 7 of its 25 quotes
A line from GontaRaccoons! This war has just begun. We won't stop attacking until we've battered, pulverized and squeezed to death every last human in Tama Hills! [He emphatically crushes and twists his empty beer can and hurls it to the ground]
More lines from Gonta
3 quotes Gonta Gonta What good did it do? You idiots. You think that will stop the developers? Don't just frighten them. We need to hurt them. Inflict some serious pain! [He waves his arm around, forgetting it's still injured, then stops and doubles over in pain]
Gonta "Ferry us back to an era of greatness". We were idiots to think those old geezers could help us in the first place.
Scenes with Gonta
3 scenes
Osho
[Osho is patiently teaching a class to the young raccoons]
A raccoon fell out of the tree! Yes, that's right. Who can tell me *why* the raccoon fell out of the tree? Gonta?
Gonta [stoutly]
He was a loser. I wouldn't have fallen.
Gonta See? Just wasting time.
Seizaemon
But if we went out into the world and started attacking the humans, they're going to turn on us and wipe us out.
Gonta As the old saying goes, when a mouse is cornered, he will bite a cat.
Female Tanuki 1
Uh... He's a mouse?
Female Tanuki 2
He is not a mouse.
He means that if we're desperate enough, we can beat anyone.
Gonta That's right. When a mouse is cornered, he can find the strength to defeat a cat. That's what I said.
Female Tanuki 3
But we're not mice, though.
Male Tanuki 1
Why would we want to beat up a cat, y'know?
Male Tanuki 2
I'm starved. Sure would like to have a mouse to eat right about now.
Male Tanuki 3
A good mouse tempura can't be beat.
Osho
Not true. Plain deep fried is better.
Male Tanuki 4
I don't know. I think the tempura batter is what really makes it.
Male Tanuki 5
The thought of the crispy tail makes my mouth water.
Gonta [The Tanuki all sigh. Gonta stares back and forth, bewildered, across the crowd]
WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH ALL OF YOU?! [He changes into his ultra simplified form and sings] I say a mouse tempura is the best one, yes it is!
