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2 | [[caption-width-right:350:Classification of invertebrates [[note]] [[http://oxford.university.museum/thezone/fossils/inverts/index.htm source]] [[/note]]]] |
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4 | This index is for insects, arachnids, worms, sponges and every other type of creature without a backbone. See Website/TheOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invertebrate for more information]] on this category of animal. |
5 | |
6 | Arachnid tropes go under ArachnidTropes, insect tropes go under InsectIndex, and mollusk tropes go under MolluskTropes (with cephalopod tropes going under CephalopodIndex). |
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8 | [[index]] |
9 | !!Tropes: |
10 | [floatboxright: |
11 | '''Categories:''' |
12 | + ArachnidTropes |
13 | + InsectIndex |
14 | + MolluskTropes |
15 | ++ CephalopodIndex |
16 | ] |
17 | * AntlionMonster: A monster that hunts by waiting for its prey at the bottom of a pit. |
18 | * ArtisticLicenseArachnids: Inaccurate and badly researched portrayals of arachnids. |
19 | * ArtisticLicenseMarineBiology: Inaccurate and badly researched portrayals of crustaceans, mollusks, echinoderms, cnidarians, and other marine invertebrates. |
20 | * AtrociousArthropods: Arthropods are depicted as evil or dangerous. |
21 | * BigCreepyCrawlies: Arthropods of unnaturally large size. |
22 | * BugCatching: Catching arthropods for fun and profit. |
23 | * BugsHeraldEvil: The presence of arthropods as a signal that something worse is coming. |
24 | * BugWar: A war against insect-like creatures from outer space. |
25 | * BugWorks: An index of works about insects and other invertebrates such as arachnids (e.g. spiders), myriapods (e.g. centipedes), gastropods (e.g. snails), etc. |
26 | * CartoonBugSprayer: A type of bug-sprayer with a push-handle and a cylindrical tank mounted crosswise to its nozzle. |
27 | * CreepyCentipedes: Centipedes portrayed as frightening and unnerving monsters. |
28 | * ElectricJellyfish: Jellyfish that shock people with electricity instead of being venomous. |
29 | * FourLeggedInsect: An arthropod portrayed with fewer legs than it should have. |
30 | * FriendToBugs: A character who genuinely loves creepy-crawlies. |
31 | * GiantEnemyCrab: Outsized, dangerous crabs. |
32 | * HiveCasteSystem: Arthropods or arthropod-like creatures living in a rigidly ordered caste system with ranks based on innate biology. |
33 | * TheInfested: A character is filled with vermin, usually bugs. |
34 | * InstantLeechJustFallInWater: Fall in suspicious water, emerge covered in leeches. |
35 | * LiteralBookworm: Either actual worms or wormy bugs that eat books, read books, or read books by eating them. |
36 | * PennyPinchingCrab: Crabs portrayed as stingy, greedy and money-obsessed. |
37 | * PitifulWorms: Insulting a person by comparing them to worms or other puny little critters. |
38 | * RedLiveLobster: Uncooked lobsters and other crustaceans, especially in animation, depicted as red-colored. |
39 | * SandWorm: Enormous, wormlike beasts that tunnel unseen underground to attack prey walking above. |
40 | * SeaHurtchin: Sea urchins’ spines hurt. |
41 | * SomewhereAnEntomologistIsCrying: Inaccurate and badly researched portrayals of insects. |
42 | * SuperPoweredShrimp: A creature based on a shrimp, typically one of the more eccentric species enhanced in some way according to the media it appears in. |
43 | * WormInAnApple: Worms are strongly associated with apples, usually as a sight gag. |
44 | * TheWormThatWalks: Creatures that are actually masses of smaller things, usually invertebrates, moving as a single entity. |
45 | [[/index]] |
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