History Main / HonorableElephant

-->''I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful 100%''

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* The Oakland Athletics baseball team has an elephant for a mascot.
* The University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa's sports team, the Crimson Tide, also has an elephant for a mascot.
* The US Republican Party has an elephant for a mascot.
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* One of the animals Mad Madam Mim became during the WizardDuel in ''Disney/TheSwordintheStone'' is a giant pink elephant.
* African elephants show up as background characters in ''TheLionKing''.

* Wooly Mammoths appear as background characters in ''Disney/BrotherBear''.

* About halfway through ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'', the Genie actually turns Abu into an elephant... ...with a monkey tail after making Aladdin become Prince Ali Ababwa.

[[caption-width-right:313:Maybe monkeys can get away with lounging on the ground, but elephants must be held to higher standards.]]

* ''Benjamin Blümchen'', the hero of the eponymous GermanLanguage audio drama series for kids, is a [[TalkingAnimal talking elephant]] with a strong moral compass and a GentleGiant personality.

* ''Benjamin Blümchen'', the hero of the eponymous GermanLanguage audio drama series for kids, is a speaking elephant with a strong moral compass and a GentleGiant personality.

* ''Benjamin Blümchen'', the hero of the eponymous GermanLanguage audio drama series for kids is a speaking elephant with a strong moral compass and a GentleGiant personality.

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* In ''[[Primeval]]'', a Columbian mammoth once saves James Lester's life.

** Though an outcast from the herd, [[spoiler:it is Martha who stands up to Matilda, a young T. rex, when Matilda targets the matriarch's calf]].

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* In ''TomAndJerry'' cartoon "Jerry and Jumbo", an elephant loyally defends Jerry from Tom after Jerry pulls a nail from the elephant's foot.

Thanks to its size, the movements of an elephant tend to be slow and ponderous. While it's impossible to know whether an elephant's inner life is more somber and serious than, say, that of an [[EverythingsWetterWithOtters otter]], it certainly ''looks'' that way. The somber image of elephants is compounded by the fact that elephants are observed engaging in what appears to be reverence for their dead. It seems likely that they are aware of their own mortality. The prodigious memory of elephants also makes it seem that their lives must be more burdened by history and the past than animals with less powerful memories, which exist more "in the moment".

Thanks to their size, the movements of an elephant tend to be slow and ponderous. While it's impossible to know whether an elephant's inner life is more somber and serious than, say, that of an [[EverythingsWetterWithOtters otter,]] it certainly ''looks'' that way. The somber image of elephants is compounded by the fact that elephants are observed engaging in what appears to be reverence for their dead. It seems likely that they are aware of their own mortality. The prodigious memory of elephants also makes it seem that their lives must be more burdened by history and the past than animals with less powerful memories, which exist more "in the moment."

An anthropomorphized elephant or mammoth will typically be honorable and stoic. Young elephants may be more playful, but is unlikely to be a willful troublemaker. Ironically, while in RealLife female elephants tend to be the most involved in the complex social behaviors which make them so easily identified-with, fictitious elephantine heroes tend to be males -- perhaps because something so massive and thick-skinned as an elephant seems masculine even when she isn't actually male.

Some aspects of RealLife elephants, such as their excellent memories, may portrayed widely in ficton, while other aspects, such as the feeling of uncontrolled rage and lust males feel during musth, may be played down.

* In ''SandsOfDestruction'', hospital administrator [[MeaningfulName Elephas Rex]], who refuses to turn away patients.
** It turns out that he is [[spoiler: a former war criminal who [[TheAtoner hopes to die having saved more lives than he took]]]].

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* Inverted in the SyFy movie, "Mammoth". They reconstituted one from DNA. It CameBackWrong and went on a murderous rampage.

* In ''{{Babar}}'', The elephants live in TheKingdom, while the Rhinoceroses are seem to be a military dictatorship ruled by an InsaneAdmiral.

* DrSeuss wrote of Horton, an elephant who was always faithful, 100%: he both [[HortonHearsAWho safeguarded the whos]] and [[HortonHatchesTheEgg incubates an egg in his custody.]]
* In ''{{Tarzan}}'', Tantor.

* Not a anthromorphized example, but in ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_Park Prehistoric Park]]'', Martha the mammoth.

** Though an outcast from the herd, [[spoiler: it is Martha who stands up to Matilda (a young T-rex) when Matilda targets the matriarch's calf.]]

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* Subverted with Stampy from ''TheSimpsons''. As Bart's pet, he was surly and destructive, so they send him to a sanctuary, thinking that he would be more peaceful among his own kind. But once there he started being the same way towards the other elephants, causing the caretaker to remark that some elephants are just jerks.
* In a TomAndJerry cartoon, an elephant loyally defends Jerry from Tom after Jerry pulls a nail from the elephant's foot.

* One of the animals Mad Madam Mim turned into during the WizardDuel in ''Disney/TheSwordintheStone'' is a giant pink elephant.

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* In a TomAndJerry cartoon, an elephant loyally defends Jerry from Tom after Jerry pulls a nail from the elephant's foot.